Weights & Biases Receives Recognition from Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit
June 25 2024 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Success memo from Department of Defense
underscores Weights & Biases’ ability to accelerate AI
delivery
Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform, today announced
it received a memorandum of success from the Department of Defense
(DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for completing the Automated
Machine Learning for Mine Countermeasures Operations (AMMO) MLOps
prototype. This recognition highlights Weights & Biases’
ability to deliver next-generation technologies to the public
sector and its commitment to defense and intelligence work across
the U.S. government.
“There is a need for an enterprise-grade MLOps platform in the
federal government that will meet the requirements within the DoD,”
said Chris Van Pelt, Co-Founder of Weights & Biases. “We’ve
long been the partner of choice for the commercial sector, and this
success memo validates that Weights & Biases is the right
partner for government organizations looking to usher in the next
generation of innovation. We’re proud to achieve this recognition
for our ability to accelerate the delivery of AI.”
In the spring of 2022, the DIU, in collaboration with the Navy,
sought solution briefs addressing the need for MLOps platforms in
order to connect networks across joint forces. Weights & Biases
was selected and developed a prototype MLOps pipeline for mine
countermeasures model development and deployment.
The prototype was evaluated on several factors, including its
interoperability with other Navy and Marine Corps. systems, and
successfully met key requirements. Weights & Biases completed
the initial deployment of their software into the
government-provisioned AWS environment and all three phases of
government acceptance testing, including functionality
confirmation, security posture, and deployment automation.
“Working with multiple international partners, we demonstrated
the ability to deploy and update our automatic target recognition
models at the speed of operational relevance while simultaneously
remaining confident in their performance. This embodiment of
human-machine teaming gives our Sailors a powerful tool in their
arsenal and increases confidence in their systems. I'm proud our
warfare community could be the pathfinder and exemplar for machine
learning ops, tooling, and processes that will improve many other
Navy and joint service warfighting capabilities in the age of
artificial intelligence,” said Commodore Shaun Lieb, Commander,
Task Force (CTF) 75.
The Weights & Biases AI developer platform helps teams
build, manage, and deploy models faster, and is used across the
entire ML workflow to boost productivity, serve as the system of
record for ML teams, and deliver productionzed ML at scale. As part
of the engagement with the DIU, Weights & Biases delivered
MLOps software that provided: data exploration and processing; data
version control; and model management, version tracking, and
storage.
“By helping organizations gain auditable end-to-end machine
learning workflows for reproducibility and governance, Weights
& Biases AI developer platform helps meet the unique needs of
the federal government,” said Mark Kroto, Head of Federal Sales,
Weights & Biases. “We’re committed to bolstering the
government’s AI readiness, allowing for transparency, auditability,
and fairness.”
To learn more about Weights & Biases and its work in the
public sector, visit wandb.ai/site/solutions/public-sector.
About Weights & Biases
Weights & Biases is the leading AI developer platform
supporting end-to-end MLOps and LLMOps workflows. Used by over 30
foundation model builders and 1,000 companies to productionize
machine learning at scale including teams at OpenAI, Toyota, and
Microsoft, Weights & Biases is part of the new standard of best
practices for machine learning.
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