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Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) is sponsored by DARPA. The SABER program aims to develop an advanced AI red team capability to operationally assess vulnerabilities in AI-enabled autonomous ground and aerial military systems. It seeks to establish a sustainable model for AI red teaming processes for the Department of War.
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Department of War organization. Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness There is a growing desire to integrate rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into Department of War (DoW) systems. AI may give battlefield advantage by helping improve the speed, quality, and accuracy of decision-making while enabling autonomy and assistive automation.
Due to the statistical nature of machine learning, a significant amount of work has focused on ensuring the robustness of AI-enabled systems at inference time to natural degradations in performance caused by data distribution shifts (for example, from a highly dynamic deployment environment). However, as early as 2014, researchers demonstrated the ability to manipulate AI given adversary control of the input.
Additional work has confirmed the theoretical risks of data poisoning, physically constrained adversarial patches for evasion, and model stealing attacks. These attacks are typically tested in simulated or physical environments with relatively pristine control compared to what might be expected on a battlefield.
Today, there is still a limited ability to operationally assess deployed military AI-enabled systems for adversarial vulnerabilities, and the “theoretical” adversarial AI attacks have not been practically demonstrated in operational settings. As a result, the operational security risks of AI-enabled battlefield systems remain largely unknown.
Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) aims to build an exemplar AI red team equipped with the necessary counter-AI techniques, tools, and technical competency to operationally assess AI-enabled battlefield systems. SABER seeks to establish a sustainable model for an operational AI red teaming process for the DoW.
Our AI red team will target operationally assessing AI-enabled autonomous ground and aerial systems that could be deployed within the next 1-3 years. Proposers Day (2025) Presentation Information Innovation Office
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U. S. organizations capable of handling classified information at the SECRET level. Focuses on research performers to develop attack techniques and tools, and toolkit integration. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) is funded by DARPA. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
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DARPA Young Faculty Award is sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA Young Faculty Award program identifies and engages rising academics in early-career research positions, particularly those with minimal prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense (DOD) needs. The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) within DARPA has open topic areas in Physical Sciences, including open quantum systems, quantum-enhanced sensing, novel qubit platforms, complex chemical systems, nuclear systems and beams, nuclear particle/photon interactions, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
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