MITRE to Establish New AI Experimentation and Prototyping Capability for U.S. Government Agencies
May 07 2024 - 1:36PM
Business Wire
MITRE Federal AI Sandbox to be Powered by
NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
MITRE is building a new capability intended to give its
artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and developers access to a
massive increase in computing power. The new capability, MITRE
Federal AI Sandbox, will provide better experimentation of next
generation AI-enabled applications for the federal government. The
Federal AI Sandbox is expected to be operational by year’s end and
will be powered by an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ that enables accelerated
infrastructure scale and performance for AI enterprise work and
machine learning.
As U.S. government agencies seek to apply AI across their
operations, few have adequate access to supercomputers and the deep
expertise required to operate the technology and test potential
applications on secure infrastructure.
“The recent executive order on AI encourages federal agencies to
reduce barriers for AI adoptions, but agencies often lack the
computing environment necessary for experimentation and
prototyping,” says Charles Clancy, MITRE, senior vice president and
chief technology officer. “Our new Federal AI Sandbox will help
level the playing field, making the high-quality compute power
needed to train and test custom AI solutions available to any
agency.”
MITRE will apply the Federal AI Sandbox to its work for federal
agencies in areas including national security, healthcare,
transportation, and climate. Agencies can gain access to the
benefits of the Federal AI Sandbox through existing contracts with
any of the six federally funded research and development centers
MITRE operates.
Sandbox capabilities offer computing power to train cutting edge
AI applications for government use including large language models
(LLMs) and other generative AI tools. It can also be used to train
multimodal perception systems that can understand and process
information from multiple types of data at once such as images,
audio, text, radar, and environmental or medical sensors, and
reinforcement learning decision aids that learn by trial and error
to help humans make better decisions.
"MITRE’s purchase of a DGX SuperPOD to assist the federal
government in its development of AI initiatives will turbocharge
the U.S. federal government’s efforts to leverage the power of AI,"
says Anthony Robbins, vice president of public sector, NVIDIA. "AI
has enormous potential to improve government services for citizens
and solve big challenges, like transportation and cyber
security.”
The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD powering the sandbox is capable of an
exaFLOP of performance to train and deploy custom LLMs and other AI
solutions at scale.
About MITRE
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for a safer world. Through our public-private partnerships and
federally funded R&D centers, we work across government and in
partnership with industry to tackle challenges to the safety,
stability, and well-being of our nation.
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