SEI and AI2C Collaborate to Create Effective AI Solutions for the Army

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving revolutionary capabilities to analyze data, automate systems, and support decision making. To leverage this potential, the Army launched a collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the SEI in 2019 to explore the suitability of AI for addressing the Army’s current needs and to advance capabilities that expand the U.S. advantage over its adversaries. The Army expanded this work in 2021, creating the Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) to further develop and operationalize AI solutions.

The SEI delivers value and impact through its extensive experience leading novel research, testing and adapting new technologies to meet DoD needs, and delivering prototypes of effective capabilities. The SEI’s collaboration with AI2C has been successful because of this research-to-practice paradigm, which has formed the basis for how the SEI provides a technical vision to help the Army discover, define, and develop AI-enabled capabilities.

Over the past five years, our collaboration with the SEI has been instrumental in advancing the AI Development Environment, AI Fusion, and Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Colonel Isaac Faber

Director, U.S. Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center

Together the SEI and AI2C have established the technological underpinnings for several important AI systems and identified the metrics to ensure their success. “Over the past five years, our collaboration with the SEI has been instrumental in advancing the AI Development Environment, AI Fusion, and Robotics and Autonomous Systems,” said Colonel Isaac Faber, director of AI2C. These AI-enabled solutions have given the Army the capability to develop AI quickly and effectively; acquire data to conduct high-confidence, real-time detection in operational environments; and deploy autonomous vehicles in the field. “Our work with the SEI has significantly helped AI2C fulfill its mission of accelerating AI innovations.”

Photo: (right) U.S. Army Reserve, CPT Katherine Alegado