AI on the front lines: Senate pushes Army to develop neural sensors to track soldiers’ fatigue, stress

Senators on the Armed Services Committee want the Pentagon to move quickly toward adopting AI-driven neural sensors for American warfighters.

"The committee encourages the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to accelerate funding for the development of dual-purpose wearable neural biosensor technologies via the National Network for Microelectronics Research and Development to support broader transition to the services," the committee said in its report on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.

The report said an Army office that develops standards for soldiers in the field and a joint office that deals with a range of defense equipment are developing the sorts of biometric data that they want these sensors to report. The Pentagon declined to give Fox News Digital an estimate of when that work might be completed but did outline how an AI assessment of data collected by these sensors might help commanders make military decisions.