{"id":1582559,"date":"2022-08-01T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582559"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:47:50","slug":"air-force-testing-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-to-combat-active-shooters-on-military-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-force-testing-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-to-combat-active-shooters-on-military-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Testing Drones And Artificial Intelligence To Combat Active Shooters On Military Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fair-force-testing-drones-and-artificial-intelligence-to-combat-active-shooters-on-military-installations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582559&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new system pioneered and being tried by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-air-force\">United States Air Force<\/a> uses artificial intelligence and drone technology in order to prevent active shooters on military installations.<\/p>\n<p>A company called ZeroEyes has created a system titled \u201cThe Drone-Robot Enabled Active Shooter Deterrence system\u201d that will combine with artificial intelligence gun-detection software used by the security camera system at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles\/2022\/7\/27\/air-force-testing-counter-shooter-tech-on-bases\">reported<\/a> National Defense Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire idea behind the platform is being able to take a robot and ultimately impede, disorient an active threat on an installation before they can do any more damage,\u201d said JT Wilkins of ZeroEyes.<\/p>\n<p>As the huge majority of active shooter situations feature the shooter with a weapon exposed for two to 30 minutes before the weapon is fired, the drone employed by the Air Force would sound a siren or use a strobe to distract the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s ultimately where we want to be able to get these detections out and be able to send a robot to potentially interdict while we\u2019re getting up a squad car from one side of the base to the other,\u201d Wilkins stated, adding, \u201cYou know that every AI is going to throw false positives, and that\u2019s why we put a human reviewer in there to make sure that we can mitigate some of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the threat has been verified, the human being responsible for launching the robotic dog or other response will instigate the reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot will continue over a 15-month period through a $750,000 direct-to-phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from AFWERX, the service\u2019s technology accelerator,\u201d National Defense Magazine reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA review of media reports by The New York Times found 30 shootings and other violent episodes at American military installations since the Fort Hood attack in 2009,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/06\/us\/military-naval-base-shootings.html\">reported<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would think that one place that would be almost immune from these sorts of attacks would be a military base,\u201d Neal M. Sher, who represented the victims of the first Fort Hood attack, stated.<\/p>\n<p>After the second attack at Fort Hood in 2014, First Lt. Patrick Cook, who survived the attack, lamented the rules that barred soldiers and sailors from carrying their personal firearms at the installation, asserting, \u201cThis will happen again, and again until we learn the lesson that suppressing the bearing of arms doesn\u2019t prevent horrific crimes, it invites them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new system pioneered and being tried by the United States Air Force uses artificial intelligence and drone technology in order to prevent active shooters on military installations. A company called ZeroEyes has created a system titled \u201cThe Drone-Robot Enabled Active Shooter Deterrence system\u201d that will combine with artificial intelligence gun-detection software used by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}