The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.

San Francisco AI startup TurbineOne announced on Thursday that the Army has awarded it a five-year contract worth up to $98.9 million to take its flagship Frontline Perception System (FPS) from small-scale pilot projects to what a company spokesperson described to The Register as a "production-scale" contract.

TurbineOne describes FPS as a model-agnostic machine learning platform that automates the assessment of military targets. The platform ingests data from multiple sensors, such as air, land, sea, and space-based imagery and signals, to detect battlefield threats like drones, enemy p

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