Advancing security & defense technologies
For 80 years, SRI has been a trusted strategic partner to the U.S. Department of Defense and the national security community. SRI's defense-related work spans a broad portfolio: sensing & surveillance, autonomous systems, physical security, biodefense, cyber resilience, and human-centered AI. SRI continues to partner with government and commercial organizations to address next-generation threats and challenges.
SRI is spearheading a way for autonomous systems to effectively operate in evolving and adversarial environments such as war zones.
Teaching machines to learn like humans could help autonomous systems deal with unfamiliar environments
See through the darkness of night with SRI's innovative digital low-light camera that transforms night vision
SRI's AI-powered technology detects deepfakes and manipulated media
Explore the future of national and global security and defense technologies
On March 26, join Christopher Kirchhoff, (Head of AI Strategy & Global Security, Scale AI), Eleni Kounalakis (Lieutenant Governor of California), John Markoff (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist), and Raj M Shah (Managing Partner, Shield Capital) at our next PARC Forum in Palo Alto.
We work with government, commercial, corporate, and startup customers on projects ranging from intelligence systems and mission solutions for aircraft survivability to carbon capture technologies – to make the world safer and more secure.
We offer a full range of support from R&D and lab demos through to prototypes, early manufacturing, and sustained systems.
Defense and security solutions for:
AI
Trustworthy AI systems that are transparent, context-aware, and ethically grounded, aiming to combat misinformation and make output more transparent.
INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
Applications developed in collaboration with government and commercial clients that integrate basic and applied research to transfer innovations from the lab to real-world.
HARDWARE
Prototypes, early manufacturing, and scalable systems in advanced imaging, integrated systems, microcircuit emulation, and aircraft missions.
SPACE
Mission-critical tech including compact sensors for uncompromising environments; small satellite payload and mission design; specialized signal processing and exploitation; and geospace systems.
SURVEILLANCE
Advanced signal processing and systems that enable chemical sensing, unique observation methods, and enhance situational awareness in any domain.
AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS & DESIGN
Algorithms and hardware in computational sensing, 2D/3D reasoning, interactive intelligent systems, collaborative autonomy, multi-modal data analytics, and machine learning.
HEALTH
Organizations work with SRI to innovate around biomarker and biological assay development, biohazard detection devices, and health monitoring wearables.
ACCELERATORS
Harness SRI’s expertise to speed up tech transition — out of the lab into the real world — and scale technologies for U.S. national and economic security outcomes.
CHALLENGE
Imagers today don't support capturing high dynamic range, high motion or high-resolution objects of interest locally across a scene.
SOLUTION
SRI researchers developed sematic reasoning and analysis algorithms to deliver feedback and control commercial off the shelf (COTS) processors and imagers in real-time.
IMPACT
This has a variety of applications such as aerial surveillance, autonomous navigation systems, the space industry, defense equipment, and consumer electronics.
Researchers at SRI have developed a new framework called Pelican that improves the accuracy of GenAI responses, particularly in the context of image interpretation.
SRI's OLIVE speech processing system provides robust speech information extraction amid high levels of noise and distortion in real-world data.
Teaching machines to learn like humans could help autonomous systems deal with unfamiliar environments.
Developing automated tools that aid analysts as they tackle the rise of automated multimodal media manipulation.
SRI: Innovating in AI. 80 years of world-changing innovations, like the first mobile robot with the ability to perceive and reason.
To chart the future of human-machine teaming, SRI’s COLLEAGUE project is building an AI-based system designed to act as a true collaborative partner.
A demo from DARPA discussing the current state of the art in deepfakes and showcasing a recent capability, developed under SemaFor, for authenticating videos.
Working in SRI’s AI Center, Sequeira creates autonomous systems that learn, reason, and adapt under uncertainty.
SRI research demonstrates how bad actors might encode undetectable malware inside complex deep neural networks.
Leveraging SRI navigation technology, Entropy Robotics aims to create safe, resilient autonomous platforms for defense, livestock management, disaster recovery, and much more.
SRI’s wafer-thin optical arrays aim to democratize optical communication among “constellations” of small satellites.
The team that designed a mixed reality headset for the battlefield will determine how it can prevent or neutralize attacks against the system.
SRI's technologies help safeguard national security and protect our cyber-systems
We have the expertise, technology, and the pipeline to bring innovation into the market. And we're just getting started.
