Octo Receives Option Year Funding from ARL for Advanced MLOps R&D
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has awarded Octo, an IBM Company, option year funding to continue services for an additional year under Octo’s broad agency announcement contract award.
- The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has awarded Octo, an IBM Company, option year funding to continue services for an additional year under Octo’s broad agency announcement contract award.
- Octo will continue researching and developing a machine learning operations (MLOps) prototype designed to maintain operational effectiveness of ML models in austere environments.
- Octo and ARL will extend the technology based on the Soldier-centered design process, which includes iterative experimentation and data collected from successive experiments and demonstrations.
- Additionally, Octo will research and develop methods of establishing an active learning pipeline, enabling automatic retraining of ML models in austere environments.