Air Force Cognitive Engine

:  The Air Force Research Laboratory, Autonomous Capability Team 3 (AFRL/ACT3) located at Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB) is in the planning stage for a research program to provide rapid, flexible, and innovative architectural and software engineering support to enable ACT3’s strategic objective of operationalizing AI at scale. The goal is to lower the barriers to entry for AI applications, and provide capabilities and collaboration which address a range of AI problem classes for end-user application through the development and application of an AI software platform, the Air Force Cognitive Engine (ACE).  ACT3 envisions the ACE as the backbone of an outward facing structure, providing an agent-based architecture that enables the development and refinement of autonomy and AI technologies and connection between people, algorithms, data, and computational resource infrastructures.  This structure must be instantiated in a manner which is scalable and adaptable to support the application of autonomy and AI technologies against various Air Force problem sets, and requires integration in a cloud-based construct, yet capable of running on a single laptop, and on embedded systems:  The Air Force Research Laboratory, Autonomous Capability Team 3 (AFRL/ACT3) located at Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB) is in the planning stage for a research program to provide rapid, flexible, and innovative architectural and software engineering support to enable ACT3’s strategic objective of operationalizing AI at scale. The goal is to lower the barriers to entry for AI applications, and provide capabilities and collaboration which address a range of AI problem classes for end-user application through the development and application of an AI software platform, the Air Force Cognitive Engine (ACE).  ACT3 envisions the ACE as the backbone of an outward facing structure, providing an agent-based architecture that enables the development and refinement of autonomy and AI technologies and connection between people, algorithms, data, and computational resource infrastructures.  This structure must be instantiated in a manner which is scalable and adaptable to support the application of autonomy and AI technologies against various Air Force problem sets, and requires integration in a cloud-based construct, yet capable of running on a single laptop, and on embedded systems.