The Department of Defense is looking for AI-enhanced target recognition to help troops, vehicles and ships destroy drones . The C-UAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhancement project focuses on aided target recognition , or AiTR. This uses concepts such as AI, machine learning and computer vision to create a system that can detect threats — and distinguish them from non-threats such as birds — faster than a human operator can. The first phase of the project is aimed at remote weapons stations, and