Launching the AI Research Centre for Defence

Published on November 14, 2022

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has announced the formation of the AI Research Centre for Defence (ARC-D) as part of the newly released Defence AI Strategy and the recently established Defence AI Centre. Dstl and the Alan Turing Institute have jointly launched the Centre in order to research problems related to advancing artificial intelligence (AI) capability.

Initially named the Defence Centre for AI Research (DARC), the Centre is being launched in conjunction with the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s institute for AI and data science. Funded through the Ministry of Defence’s Chief Scientific Advisor, the Centre will focus on the underpinning problems associated with enabling advances in AI capability, including ethics and human-centric AI.

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