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Sentient, sometimes reported on and referred to as the Future Ground Architecture program, is a heavily classified artificial intelligence satellite intelligence analysis system of the United States Intelligence Community, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and developed by their Advanced Systems and Technology Directorate (AS&T), with the United States Air Forces Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Department of Energy's National Laboratories.[1][2]
Sentient has been described as a "classified artificial brain."[3][4] Available information describes it as a complex automated system that allows intelligence agencies of the United States and the United States Armed Forces to use artificial satellites in Earth orbits to track in real time any objects detected or photographed, and to automatically repurpose with artificial intelligence and machine learning the tracking of targets, and to even decide which targets are worth tracking.[1] One NRO document detailed Sentient as a system able to "automatically fuse multi-[intelligence] 'big data' in context to understand current activity, predict new activity, and discover unknown activity."[3] Known public records of Sentients development programs and process date from 2009-2010 onward, as highlighted by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).[5] NRO emails from 2021 disclosed that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), which later became the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), was involved with the NRO and the Sentient program.[6] Former NRO Director Betty Sapp disclosed that Sentient is also known as the agency's Future Ground Architecture program.[2] Programs such as Sentient are part of the Pentagon's Third Offset Strategy.[7][8]
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