Software Development and Electronics

In a show of how far DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program has come in its goal of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into combat scenarios — and increasing trust in this level of autonomy — the Secretary of the Air Force gamely strapped into the cockpit of an AI-piloted F-16 fighter jet and prepared for takeoff.

By harnessing recent technological breakthroughs in physiological monitoring and machine learning, researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, have made significant strides toward creating objective digital measures for assessing and tracking mental health.

In a recent scientific paper published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, researchers harnessed tools developed by APL to shed light on the origins of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.