US EditionUS Navy turns to AI firm Domino for options to counter Iranian mines
The contract expands Domino’s role as the AI backbone of Project AMMO, cutting mine-model updates from six months to days, the company said.
- Last week, the U.S. Navy awarded Domino Data Lab up to $99.7 million to expand its role as the AI backbone of Project AMMO, accelerating underwater mine detection in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Before Domino's involvement, updating AI models for unmanned underwater vehicles to recognize new mines could take up to six months, but the Navy now aims to cut this cycle to days.
- "Mine-Hunting used to be a job for ships," Domino Chief Operating Officer Thomas Robinson said, as Project AMMO—Accelerated Machine Learning for Maritime Operations—integrates sonar and imaging data to improve detection.
- Robinson illustrated the technology's versatility: if UUVs in the Baltic Sea trained on Russian mines needed deployment to the Strait of Hormuz for Iranian mine detection, the Navy could be ready in a week rather than a year.
- President Donald Trump has stated the Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital sea route for oil shipments where disruptions threaten the global economy.
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US Navy turns to AI firm for options to counter Iranian mines
The U.S. Navy is ramping up its AI capabilities to hunt for Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical shipping lanes, a recently awarded contract shows. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the strait, a vital sea route for oil shipments, whose disruption is increasingly threatening the global economy. Sweeping for underwater explosives could take months despite a tenuous ceas…
US Navy turns to AI to detect mines in Hormuz
ALBAWABA - Amid persistent worries about maritime security and interruptions to international trade, the US Navy is increasing its use of artificial intelligence to identify and remove underwater explosives in the Strait of Hormuz...
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Tom's HardwareUS Navy signs deal with AI firm for training underwater drones to detect mines in Strait of Hormuz — $100 million would allow drone minesweepers to update their detection algorithms in days instead of months
The U.S. Navy just signed a $99.7 million deal with Domino Data Lab to build software to monitor other AI mine detection systems, identify failures, and push corrections in the field.
The US Navy is strengthening its AI capabilities against Iranian mines with a $100 million contract.
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