Google funded San Jose company with Army drone-warfare contract and reported U.S./Mexico border

Google funded San Jose company with Army drone-warfare contract and reported U.S./Mexico border ambitions


Google’s work for the Pentagon on the “Project Maven” drone-warfare initiative led to an employee revolt that pushed the Mountain View tech giant to pull out of the artificial intelligence project.

But the company’s two-year-old venture fund, Gradient Ventures, has invested in Cogniac, a San Jose firm that worked for the U.S. Army on similar technology. Now, according to a new report, Cogniac is pitching its products to the federal government for use at the border with Mexico.

Cogniac makes AI software for analyzing imagery. The company has highlighted its contract with the U.S. Army to work on a drone-warfare project under an initiative called “Systems Adaptive Red Team/Technical Support and Operational Analysis.”

According to a report from drone website UASWeekly which Cogniac linked to on its website, “Cogniac’s mission was to demonstrate the ability of their AI application to provide fast, reliable, and actionable analysis of real-time imagery in a field command environment.”

Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/05/17/google-funded-san-jose-company-with-army-drone-warfare-contract-and-reported-u-s-mexico-border-ambitions/