US navy turns to AI firm for smarter options to counter Iranian mines
The US Navy has awarded a contract worth up to $100m to Domino Data Lab, a San Francisco AI company, to enhance its ability to detect Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz using AI-powered underwater drones. The contract aims to quicken the mine detection process from months to days.
The US Navy is enhancing its AI capabilities to counter Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz through a recently awarded contract to Domino Data Lab. The contract, worth up to $100m, aims to utilize AI software to teach underwater drones to identify new types of mines in days rather than months. Domino's software integrates data from multiple sensor types and allows the navy to monitor AI detection models, identify failures, and push corrections. The technology has reduced the cycle for updating AI models to recognize new mines from six months to days. The US Navy's Project AMMO (Accelerated Machine Learning for Maritime Operations) is leveraging Domino's AI backbone to make underwater mine detection faster and more accurate. The development is critical given the disruption to global oil shipments caused by Iranian mines.
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