The Army has launched an initiative to establish artificial intelligence and machine learning research partnerships with multiple historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions (MIs).
The newly created Army – HBCU/MI Faculty Immersion Program aims to foster collaboration, enhance research capabilities and encourage broader university-level participation in advanced technology activities supported by the Defense Department.
Junior HBCU and MI faculty members who apply and are accepted into the two-year program will train for 10 or more weeks at an Army laboratory before studying and working at an Army-partnered research university for a semester while developing a research proposal related to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Each participant will then spend 18 months conducting their proposed research at their home institution.