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Developing a Series of AI Challenges for the United States Department of the Air Force
Through a series of federal initiatives and orders, the U.S. Government has
been making a concerted effort to ensure American leadership in AI. These broad
strategy documents have influenced organizations such as the United States
Department of the Air Force (DAF). The DAF-MIT AI Accelerator is an initiative
between the DAF and MIT to bridge the gap between AI researchers and DAF
mission requirements. Several projects supported by the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator
are developing public challenge problems that address numerous Federal AI
research priorities. These challenges target priorities by making large,
AI-ready datasets publicly available, incentivizing open-source solutions, and
creating a demand signal for dual use technologies that can stimulate further
research. In this article, we describe these public challenges being developed
and how their application contributes to scientific advances