Coast Guard lands $350M for robotics, autonomy![]() The U.S. Coast Guard has landed a $350 million investment to develop robotics and autonomous systems, funded through the government’s newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).The announcement marks the first visible deployment of OBBBA funds in the robotics and autonomy space – providing a potential preview of what’s to come in other industries.As part of the investment, the Coast Guard plans to channel an initial $11 million for immediate upgrades across critical systems this year. These include:$4.8 million for 16 VideoRay Defender remotely operated vehicles$2 million for six Qinetiq Squad Packable Utility Robots and 12 mini-SPURs$4.3 million for 125 SkyDio X10D short-range dronesThe tools will replace the Coast Guard’s outmoded fleets, supporting environmental monitoring, disaster response and search and rescue use cases.Beyond the Coast GuardThe OBBBA, which officially became law on July 4, includes grand plans for leveraging AI and autonomy to bolster U.S. industries, including defense, security and maritime. While specific funding projects have not yet been revealed, proposed investments include:$450 million for AI and autonomy in naval shipbuilding$4.6 billion for unmanned surface vessels and underwater vehicle production$188 million for the development and testing of maritime robotic autonomous systems$4.5 billion for AI and surveillance in the U.S. Customs & Border Protection$6.1 billion for autonomous surveillance, towers, drones and sensor systems along U.S. border regions$500 million to scale AI efforts in the Department of Defense $1.2 billion for upgraded rapid response air and marine platformsThe OBBBA’s exact structure is still emerging, but the latest announcement shows the White House is already making good on its promise to champion AI, with the Coast Guard investment the first step in this journey. LINKS $1.5B Anthropic settlement gets preliminary OKTrump eyes tariffs on robotics, machinery, medical importsAfter cloud shift, SAP CEO eyes new challengeMicrosoft terminates Israeli military’s access for terms-of-service breachMeta poaches another former OpenAI employeeMoffett calls Alphabet most valuable AI company ChatGPT Pulse: Available for preview for Pro users on mobile, ChatGPT Pulse delivers personalized daily updates and research based on your chats, apps and feedback. Asana AI Teammates: AI agents that learn and adapt across teams to speed up collaborative work.Ambient Daily Briefing: Connects to your calendar and scours your trusted sources to organize prep for meetings. Stamp: An “AI secretary” that handles your inbox, offering summaries, prioritizing and categorizing emails, and drafting replies. Gabriel, São Paulo: Senior ML engineer with 9 years designing scalable data infrastructure and 4 years implementing enterprise-grade recommendation systems (AWS, Kafka, Spark) — $47/hMateo, Buenos Aires: AI specialist with 6 years in production-level computer vision systems and 3 years deploying models on secure edge devices for enterprise IoT use cases — $49/hSofia, Medellín: NLP lead with 8 years delivering compliance-ready language models, including 5 years working on multilingual enterprise chatbots and document automation — $46/h(Sponsored) GAMES![]() |
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