Army, University of Maryland Enter Cooperative Artificial Intelligence Partnership Vertigo3d/iStock.com email June 1, 2021 04:46 PM ET The joint effort will aim to advance multiple projects focused on AI, autonomy, and modeling and simulation. U.S. military and academic researchers are set to explore emerging artificial intelligence applications and form a shared hub to advance how intelligent machines operate with one another and humans across multiple domains. Those efforts and others to develop autonomous air- and ground-based technologies will unfold under a new five-year cooperative agreement between the Army Research Laboratory and University of Maryland. “ARL is always interested in engaging with academic institutions to address unique Army challenges,” Karl Kappra, director of ARL’s Futures Division, told