AI platform leader's successful prototype
accelerates Automatic Target Recognition model retraining from
months to weeks, enabling higher trust in mine countermeasure
intelligence
Achieves "Awardable" status through the Chief
Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) Tradewinds
Solutions Marketplace
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FRANCISCO, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino Data
Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI platform trusted by the
largest AI-driven enterprises and major government agencies, today
announced the successful completion of a prototype for the U.S.
Department of Defense. The company's technology helps to close a
critical gap by using Domino's platform to deploy and retrain
Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) models dozens of times faster
than before — enabling naval decision-makers to have higher
confidence in field-generated insights from Unmanned Underwater
Vehicles (UUVs).
Undersea warfare is critical to success in the Pacific and other
contested environments, and supporting the fleet with automated
underwater mine detection is essential. To solve this, the U.S.
Navy's Expeditionary Missions team partnered with the Defense
Innovation Unit (DIU) to identify commercial technology, including
Domino, that delivers a potentially transformative effect in these
maritime scenarios carried out by Automated Machine Learning for
Mine Countermeasures Operations (AMMO).
With Domino's Enterprise AI Platform serving as an integral
component of a modern MLOps pipeline for mine countermeasures (MCM)
AI-based model development and deployment in the cloud, Team AMMO
was able to decouple hardware and software updates to dramatically
accelerate updates to ATR models at the edge. This results in more
accurate imagery and sonar-based intelligence that can be trusted
and actioned by naval decision-makers for next-generation warfare
advantage.
"DIU helped the Navy down-select 30 proposals through a very
rapid, accelerated process, eventually putting prototypes in the
water," DIU Director Doug Beck said
at the National Defense Industrial Association's Pacific
Operational Science and Technology Conference in March 2024. "One of the things that we discovered
through that process was that as these unmanned vessels were out
there doing what they did, [when] they came back, we needed to be
able to update their software based on what they just learned."
Using Domino as the factory for integrating four other
commercial technologies, three different contracted teams were able
to accelerate their work, reducing the time to deploy AI models at
the edge to two weeks down from six months and retraining the
models in two weeks rather than 12 months.
As a modular, open, and extensible platform hosted in AWS
GovCloud, Domino enables Project AMMO's distributed teams to deploy
models faster with built-in observability, and reduced
time-to-impact. Users can leverage the best open source and
commercial tools of their choice in a highly governed way, on one
platform, to generate and analyze ATR field-generated insights.
Domino's built-in model portability allows these teams to easily
convert and export models into external formats to far-edge
platforms, and it allows users to securely access and share
structured and unstructured data from anywhere.
"Autonomy is a key feature of next-generation warfighting, with
trusted AI enabling those systems, and commercial AI solutions like
Domino are critical to accelerating the DoD's ability to field
autonomous capabilities across domains, particularly underwater,"
said Domino President of Public Sector Joel
Meyer. "As an open and scalable, yet highly governable
platform, Domino helps the U.S. Navy's Project AMMO deploy
cutting-edge commercial tech to enable the fleet with rapidly
updated models that deliver a higher level of trust in intelligence
to power their missions."
"It's highly encouraging to see Domino, the Navy, and DIU
partnering to rapidly field commercial tech sector capabilities in
order to deter conflict," said Brig. Gen. Bobby Kinney. "This type of teaming, with
Domino's core MLOps technology at its center, is an example of a
rapid, repeatable, and scalable template that will significantly
improve our nation's defenses."
Domino Assessed "Awardable" for DoD Work in the CDAO's
Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace
Domino also announced that it has achieved "Awardable" status
through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's
(CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, enabling a rapid
procurement pathway for DoD customers to access Domino's
market-leading enterprise AI capabilities. The Tradewinds Solutions
Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department
of Defense's (DoD's) suite of tools and services designed to
accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) / Machine Learning (ML), data, and analytics capabilities.
Government customers can access Domino's five-minute video solution
on Tradewinds: tradewindAI.com.
Domino's Enterprise AI and MLOps Platform helps government
agencies integrate AI into their missions rapidly, safely, and
cost-effectively. Domino makes building, deploying, and managing AI
at scale on a unified platform easy. Data scientists, contractors,
and collaborators can access on-demand compute infrastructure and
commercial and open-source data, tools, models, and projects—across
any on-prem, GovCloud, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. With
Domino, agencies can improve collaboration and governance while
establishing AI standards and best practices that accelerate their
missions.
Additional Resources
- Read more about Domino's Enterprise AI Platform and Public
Sector solutions.
- Read Domino's case study on its work with the U.S. Navy and
DIU.
- See our latest blog posts to learn more about Domino's
capabilities to quickly, economically, and responsibly build and
operate enterprise AI.
- Follow Domino on LinkedIn and Twitter/X.
About Domino Data Lab
Domino Data Lab empowers the
largest AI-driven enterprises to build and operate AI at scale.
Domino's Enterprise AI Platform unifies the flexibility AI teams
want with the visibility and control the enterprise requires.
Domino enables a repeatable and agile ML lifecycle for faster,
responsible AI impact with lower costs. With Domino, global
enterprises can develop better medicines, grow more productive
crops, develop more competitive products, and more. Founded in
2013, Domino is backed by Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management,
In-Q-Tel, NVIDIA, Snowflake, and other leading investors. Learn
more at www.domino.ai.
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