Airborne AI transportable applications range from data center in sky deployments on intelligence gathering aircraft, to pilot assist systems for advance weapon systems and communication in theater, to deployment and control of swarms of unmanned aircraft. Datacenters in the sky need all the capabilities of land-based datacenters, but must function in harsh vibration and thermal environments while meeting strict weight, size and power constraints of the aircraft. The DOD is testing AI-driven capabilities to enable cooperative behavior or swarming where a autonomous aircraft team with each other, as well as with manned submarines, surface vessels, and aircraft to carry out their defensive and offensive missions.

Sea-based AI transportable applications include advance threat detection systems, autonomous or semi-autonomous surface ships and undersea vessels, and automated maintenance alert systems. AI capabilities are embedded in many shipboard defensive and offensive mission systems designed for rapid awareness and reaction to threats. Unmanned surface ships have been demonstrated to travel thousands of miles without any crew paving the way to ocean patrols for months at much reduced costs. Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) using AI technology are deployed in anti-mine missions. AI technology is also used to automate maintenance, identifying weak systems before they break down at sea.

Land-based AI Transportable applications range from tactical portable command centers to hybrid autonomous tanks to mobile radar platforms. Portable military command centers use AI “in theater” to quickly process a flood of tactical information to create a comprehensive and intelligible picture of the battle area. Army tank crews detect and respond to incoming threats far faster than ever before with AI systems that use advanced sensors and machine learning algorithms. Truck-mounted mobile radar systems provide ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) with advancing AI technology to process the increasing size and precision of data collected.

Artificial Intelligence is a core component of deploying truly autonomous vehicles in commercial, industrial and defense applications. These AI Transportable applications require no-compromise performance deployed in harsh operating environments supporting real time decision making. Autonomous vehicles are outfitted with specialized high performance edge computing equipment with high bandwidth data ingest components tied to a myriad of video, radar and LIDAR sensors, high capacity and low latency storage subsystems and high-performance compute engines that can perform the AI machine learning and inference tasks needed to enable the vehicle to see, hear, think and make decisions just like human operators.

OSS GAS-R features the world’s most advanced accelerator, the NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Core GPU, enabling AI on the Fly® customers to consolidate training, inference, and analytics into a unified, deployable AI solution at the edge. With available rack and flange mounting options, adaptable power subsystem and unheard-of performance in a modest 23” depth aluminum enclosure the GAS-R excels in demanding airborne applications with true “Datacenter in the Sky” capability.

The FSAn-4R delivers data center class functionality to rugged airborne and other defense deployments where no-compromise storage capability is required to support mission-critical applications. Optimized for high speed data acquisition, the FSAn-4R can be deployed in tactical trucks, ground stations and surveillance aircraft. It uses the highest-performance PCIe NVMe flash with x8 lanes for double the bandwidth of 2.5” NVMe. In addition, it includes features such as hot swap, Follow Me for RAID volume portability, and front loading.

The Gen 4 PCIe SDS-3U-4 contains options for Dual Socket Intel Xeon Gen 4 Processors and provides a feature-packed server platform for GPU or FPGA accelerated computing, 2.5 NVMe storage and the most native PCIe Gen 4 x16 slots available on the market. This functionality is delivered in a size-efficient edge-ready rugged chassis with 3U height and 20” depth. This allows the highly-integrated server to stand alone as a hyperconverged PCIe Gen 4 server, or form the core CPU and memory resources for a scale-out, rack level, expandable or composable solution in the shallowest available racks. 

The 16-slot 4U Pro platform provides extreme PCIe Gen4 speed with added professional features. The 4U Pro supports 2 PCIe Gen4 x16 host connections, 4 PCIe Gen4 x16 single-width expansion slots, and 12 PCIe Gen4 x8 single-width expansion slots to aggregate any set of PCIe add-in cards (AICs) to Gen 4 equipped servers and workstations. The system supports 16 full-length PCIe AICs such as NVMe flash, FPGAs, single-slot GPUs and network interface cards (NICs). Dynamic fan speed control keeps the system cool under full load, while conserving power and noise when unneeded. Two 2000W power supplies provide redundant hot-swap system power. The semi-rugged frame design and up to 64 GB/s of sustained data throughput make the 16 slot 4U Pro platform ideal for edge data recording, storage, or converged compute AI applications.