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author Prothmann, Christian
Gadepally, Vijay
Kepner, Jeremy
Borchard, Koley
Carlone, Luca
Folcik, Zachary
Grith, J. Daniel
Houle, Michael
How, Jonathan P.
Hughes, Nathan
Igbinedion, Ifueko
Jananthan, Hayden
Jayashankar, Tejas
Jones, Michael
Karaman, Sertac
Kurien, Binoy G.
Lancho, Alejandro
Lavezzi, Giovanni
Lee, Gary C. F.
Leiserson, Charles E.
Linares, Richard
McEvoy, Lindsey
Michaleas, Peter
Milner, Chasen
Pentland, Alex
Polyanskiy, Yury
Popovich, Jovan
Price, Jeffrey
Reid, Tim W.
Riley, Stephanie
Samsi, Siddharth
Saunders, Peter
Simek, Olga
Veillette, Mark S.
Weiss, Amir
Wornell, Gregory W.
Rus, Daniela
Ruppel, Scott T.
author_facet Prothmann, Christian
Gadepally, Vijay
Kepner, Jeremy
Borchard, Koley
Carlone, Luca
Folcik, Zachary
Grith, J. Daniel
Houle, Michael
How, Jonathan P.
Hughes, Nathan
Igbinedion, Ifueko
Jananthan, Hayden
Jayashankar, Tejas
Jones, Michael
Karaman, Sertac
Kurien, Binoy G.
Lancho, Alejandro
Lavezzi, Giovanni
Lee, Gary C. F.
Leiserson, Charles E.
Linares, Richard
McEvoy, Lindsey
Michaleas, Peter
Milner, Chasen
Pentland, Alex
Polyanskiy, Yury
Popovich, Jovan
Price, Jeffrey
Reid, Tim W.
Riley, Stephanie
Samsi, Siddharth
Saunders, Peter
Simek, Olga
Veillette, Mark S.
Weiss, Amir
Wornell, Gregory W.
Rus, Daniela
Ruppel, Scott T.
contents The DAF-MIT AI Accelerator is a collaboration between the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This program pioneers fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the competitive advantage of the United States in the defense and civilian sectors. In recent years, AI Accelerator projects have developed and launched public challenge problems aimed at advancing AI research in priority areas. Hallmarks of AI Accelerator challenges include large, publicly available, and AI-ready datasets to stimulate open-source solutions and engage the wider academic and private sector AI ecosystem. This article supplements our previous publication, which introduced AI Accelerator challenges. We provide an update on how ongoing and new challenges have successfully contributed to AI research and applications of AI technologies.
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spellingShingle Advancing AI Challenges for the United States Department of the Air Force
Prothmann, Christian
Gadepally, Vijay
Kepner, Jeremy
Borchard, Koley
Carlone, Luca
Folcik, Zachary
Grith, J. Daniel
Houle, Michael
How, Jonathan P.
Hughes, Nathan
Igbinedion, Ifueko
Jananthan, Hayden
Jayashankar, Tejas
Jones, Michael
Karaman, Sertac
Kurien, Binoy G.
Lancho, Alejandro
Lavezzi, Giovanni
Lee, Gary C. F.
Leiserson, Charles E.
Linares, Richard
McEvoy, Lindsey
Michaleas, Peter
Milner, Chasen
Pentland, Alex
Polyanskiy, Yury
Popovich, Jovan
Price, Jeffrey
Reid, Tim W.
Riley, Stephanie
Samsi, Siddharth
Saunders, Peter
Simek, Olga
Veillette, Mark S.
Weiss, Amir
Wornell, Gregory W.
Rus, Daniela
Ruppel, Scott T.
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
General Literature
Machine Learning
The DAF-MIT AI Accelerator is a collaboration between the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This program pioneers fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the competitive advantage of the United States in the defense and civilian sectors. In recent years, AI Accelerator projects have developed and launched public challenge problems aimed at advancing AI research in priority areas. Hallmarks of AI Accelerator challenges include large, publicly available, and AI-ready datasets to stimulate open-source solutions and engage the wider academic and private sector AI ecosystem. This article supplements our previous publication, which introduced AI Accelerator challenges. We provide an update on how ongoing and new challenges have successfully contributed to AI research and applications of AI technologies.
title Advancing AI Challenges for the United States Department of the Air Force
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
General Literature
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00267