NAUTICA, a NISE funded workforce development project, intends to become a catalyst in development of AI talent across the Navy. NAUTICA, a loose acronym for "Naval AI Unity Training and Challenge", will offer a NIWC Pacific designed/customized AI/ML curriculum tailored towards our budding DoD AI community throughout FY21 Q2 and Q3. NAUTICA team will provide a series of online/live and recorded training lectures to provide its students in practical AI know-how in Unity ML Agents (includes Reinforcement and Imitation Learning), OpenAI Gym, genetic algorithms, Statistical Forward Planning algorithms, Monte Carlo Tree Search/AlphaZero, NEAT/HyperNEAT, NGTS integration of trained agents, supervised/unsupervised learning, neural networks, explainable AI and more. Weekly exercises will be provided following each of the lectures, as well as technical AI support. Graduates of training will be awarded certificates of completions. 
After conclusion of the series of Unity courses, we will then hold the NAUTICA Challenge for participants to train ML agents to compete within a simple wargame environment during the summer of 2021 (FY21Q4). Certificates are awarded to all participants with tournament performance statistics. Trophies will be awarded to the top three winners. The details about the NAUTICA Challenge are still in planning and early design, but we are considering using the Unity RIDE environment developed by USC ICT, and is available to all DoD government employees and FVEY partners. 


NAUTICA Naval AI Unity Training and Challenge Poster

This is the second of four poster sessions

**Date & Time:**  Wednesday March 24th,  12-1:30pm PDT

**Location:** Poster Session Room 1B

The live poster sessions will happen in our Gather.Town lounge at the designated time. Each session has their own room. Once you click the gathertown button below, you will need to navigate to the Poster Session Room for each session located on the right side of the lounge. Each speaker will be by their poster where you can communicate with them and view their poster by clicking X on your keyboard.

[![](https://assets.underline.io/uploads/markdown_image/1/image/737a34c989ecf3ae95182670d99c072c.png)](https://gather.town/app/5IAViMZXC9ZF4E4l/NAML)

Poster Session 1B

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Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific is partnering with AFCEA San Diego chapter to host the workshop.

The NAML workshop is an opportunity for researchers from Navy research and development centers and our partner organizations to exchange technical ideas and to come together as a team.

The goals of NAML are:

* To spread awareness of current machine learning research relevant to Naval applications

* To connect machine learning researchers with experts in military requirements

* To build and strengthen collaborations within the defense research community

**Watch this video to hear about the AFCEA purpose.**

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