Is your Military AI Program Driving into a Dead End?
June 30, 2023
Today’s AI computer architectures - relying on
switched fabrics - need new packaging approaches
that can handle the demanding requirements of
military applications in the field. But program leaders face the dilemma of meeting these requirements using open standards
that were never initially designed for them.
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What can go wrong is a question for the ages, but when paired with the complexities of an F-35 aircraft, the challenges are daunting, to say the least. One Stop Systems, a company known for building advanced, high-performance platforms recently won a contract to provide the US Airforce an advanced system to simulate Electronic Warfare threats on the F-35 aircraft. The idea is to bombard the plane with an array of RF mix signals to challenge the safeguards employed and determine the worldwide EW threats the aircraft may encounter.
The United States Army has had centuries of experience advancing the vehicles used in warfighting. If you consider the arrival of the first tank on the battlefield early in the 20th Century, you can imagine the fear it conjured up. This continued through World War II with the Sherman tank, and completely changed how mechanized vehicles impacted the battlefield forever. As we move into the 21st Century, the same drive to advance the abilities of military vehicles is occurring. The sophistication that the Army is now employing in the next generation vehicle has the potential of being a generational change that is equivalent to a soldier on horseback facing their first tank.
In the real world, the goal of putting more power into less space has been thwarted by heat dissipation since the first steam engines. In 1999 the Porsche car company was faced with getting more horsepower out of their air-cooled, 3-liter engine. Acknowledging that heat was their issue, Porsche moved from an air-cooled solution to a water-cooled solution, in concert with a dry oil sump injection system. This allowed Porsche to have extremely high performance for the engine size, with a nimble car that continues to have a power-to-weight ratio that still beats all comers in the market.