Advancing AI Challenges for the United States Department of the Air Force<sup>*</sup>
The DAF-MIT AI Accelerator is a collaboration between the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This program pioneers fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the competitive advantage of the United States in the defense and civilian sectors. In recent years, AI Accelerator projects have developed and launched public challenge problems aimed at advancing AI research in priority areas. Hallmarks of AI Accelerator challenges include large, publicly available, and AI-ready datasets to stimulate open-source solutions and engage the wider academic and private sector AI ecosystem. This article supplements our previous publication, which introduced AI Accelerator challenges. We provide an update on how ongoing and new challenges have successfully contributed to AI research and applications of AI technologies.
Authors
- Lindsey McEvoy
- Jonathan P. How (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8576-1930)
- Alejandro Lancho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4211-0454)
- Sarah B. Riley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6267-3038)
- Michael E. Houle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8486-8015)
- Charles E. Leiserson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6386-5552)
- Gary C.F. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4318-8958)
- Binoy G. Kurien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4496-1543)
- Yury Polyanskiy
- Mark Veillette
- Daniela Rus
- Giovanni Lavezzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1990-4574)
- Zachary Folcik
- Luca Carlone
- Nathan Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-7032)
- Vijay Gadepally (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4598-2808)
- Michael Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-739X)
- Peter Saunders (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9299-0299)
- Olga Simek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4847-3010)
- Gregory W. Wornell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-4758)
- Hayden Jananthan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6877-0923)
- Jeremy Kepner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9668-2613)
- Tejas Jayashankar
- Sertaç Karaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2225-7275)
- Amir Weiss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3104-6939)
- Richard Linares (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-7378)
- Ifueko Igbinedion
- Siddharth Samsi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4937-6054)
- Tim Reid
- John Griffith
- Alex Pentland
- Peter Michaleas
- Chasen Milner
- Jeffrey H. Price
- Christian Prothmann
- Jovan Popovich
- Scott T. Ruppel
- Koley Borchard
Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/hpec67600.2025.11196365
- Primary Topic
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00