AI in Defense

Applied Research for the Defense Industrial Base

Defense contractors and their government sponsors face a recurring problem: committing to a technology, an AI assistant, a private 5G network, an analytic platform, before anyone has established how it performs under realistic conditions, or what it does to the people and systems around it. Vendor benchmarks answer the wrong question, and a live program is an expensive place to find out.

Fraunhofer USA builds the experimental infrastructure that answers it first: testbeds, laboratories and rapid-prototype environments where a proposed capability can be instrumented, varied and measured before it is fielded.

Why Fraunhofer USA: Independent and non-profit.

  • Applied, not theoretical: Every project below produced working infrastructure: a running laboratory, an instrumented platform, a deployed dashboard.
  • Structured to work the problem: We operate under DoD subcontracts and university-affiliated research center partnerships, with the contracting and licensing experience those arrangements demand.Access to the Fraunhofer network: Our U.S. centers draw on Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutes in Germany for source-level access to technology that is otherwise closed.
  • Access to the Fraunhofer network: Our U.S. centers draw on Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutes in Germany for source-level access to technology that is otherwise closed.
  • Built to hand off: Deliverables are designed for the sponsor to keep running: documented, modular, and configurable by the next team.

Our Work

 

HUMAN-AGENT TEAMING

Measuring what AI does to Analyst Judgement

 

5G NETWORKS

A Programmable 5G Laboratory for Network Experimentation

 

SUPPLY CHAIN RISK

Modular Analytic Pipelines for Supply-Chain Risk

Explore What AI Can Do for Your Defense Mission

Defense programs cannot afford to find out after fielding. We build the testbeds and analytic pipelines that answer the hard technical question before it becomes a program risk. Tell us what you need to know and we will build what answers it.

Contact the Defense Research Team

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Dr. Joshua Giltinan

5700 Rivertech Court, Suite 210
Riverdale, MD, 20737-1250