US EditionUS Navy turns to AI firm Domino for options to counter Iranian mines
The contract could cut mine-model updates from six months to days as the Navy expands Project AMMO for underwater drones.
- 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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