Justin Fanelli, chief technology officer of the US Navy, details to investment funds the five areas where his $150 billion annual will go to find start-ups.
Justin Fanelli, technological director of the U.S. Navy, released an updated list of the technological priorities of his institution, explicitly addressed to start-ups and their investors. There are five areas: applied AI — automatic learning, sensor fusion, stand-alone targeting, cyber operations — quantum computing for navigation, secure communications and cryptography, networks capable of transmitting data in degraded environments, operations on the electromagnetic spectrum, and digital engineering with its interoperability issues.
The financial stake is considerable: the Navy has about $150 billion a year, and the only recent contract for the MQ-25 Stingray supply drone is $562 million. Fanelli recognizes that its organization now buys mainly from D-series companies to F, and presents the publication of this list as a way of issuing a more legible signal up the market.
He puts forward a precedent to justify the approach: a collaboration with Applied Intuition would have saved about four years on a development schedule.
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