Applied Intuition has received a US Navy contract to install an AI system that helps sailors detect and track nearby vessels, starting with five Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
The company’s Intelligent Perception System (IPS) will combine data from shipboard cameras, infrared sensors, and other navigation equipment to give crews a clearer picture of their surroundings.
IPS is designed to identify and classify vessels in real time, display their predicted paths, and alert operators when a contact is on a potentially dangerous course.
Personnel will receive information on the bridge and in the combat information center, where it can support navigation decisions and awareness of nearby surface contacts.
Beyond IPS, the company said the computing and data infrastructure installed under the contract could eventually support other AI applications and be deployed on additional crewed and uncrewed vessels.
Using Ship Data to Improve AI
Alongside the perception system, Applied Intuition will provide onboard and shore-based infrastructure to collect operational data and use it to improve AI models.
Under the company’s approach, sensor data gathered at sea can be sent ashore to train updated models.
Those models can then be delivered remotely to deployed ships, without requiring them to return to port.
IPS will also create digital records of detected vessels, allowing the company to share and analyze information across the fleet instead of relying on handwritten logs.
The contract builds on an earlier prototype, the Data Edge Collection Kit, which collected shipboard sensor data for AI training.
Applied Intuition delivered the prototype to the navy in March.