{"id":213798,"date":"2026-05-14T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/faus-ca-ai-secures-2-2m-afrl-grant-for-next-gen-autonomous-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:30:19","slug":"faus-ca-ai-secures-2-2m-afrl-grant-for-next-gen-autonomous-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/faus-ca-ai-secures-2-2m-afrl-grant-for-next-gen-autonomous-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"FAU&#8217;s CA-AI Secures $2.2M AFRL Grant for Next-Gen Autonomous Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/newsdesk\/articles\/air-force-grant.php\">FAU&#8217;s CA-AI Secures $2.2M AFRL Grant for Next-Gen Autonomous Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/newsdesk\/articles\/air-force-grant.php\">https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/newsdesk\/articles\/air-force-grant.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 09:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.fau.edu\">www.fau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Funding and Collaboration<\/strong>: Florida Atlantic University\u2019s Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI) has received a $2,250,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop advanced collaborative network systems for autonomous technologies. The project involves collaboration with the University at Buffalo and the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goal of the Project<\/strong>: The aim of the project is to overcome the limitation of current autonomous technologies which can operate individually but lack effective collaboration and coordination in complex networks, especially in contested environments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Technological Focus<\/strong>: The project focuses on the development of networked edge-AI systems that perform distributed sensing and AI inference directly on board to enable real-time decision making and dynamic collaboration, avoiding interference through adaptive communication.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Workforce Development<\/strong>: The grant also includes significant efforts for workforce development, providing training from high school through doctoral level in AI-driven networking and robotics to build a future talent pipeline for these rapidly evolving fields.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAU&#8217;s CA-AI Secures $2.2M AFRL Grant for Next-Gen Autonomous Systems https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/newsdesk\/articles\/air-force-grant.php Publish Date: 2026-05-14 09:04:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/newsdesk\/images\/news\/pados-nature-newsdesk.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213800,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213798\/revisions\/213800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}