Through a series of federal initiatives and orders, the U.S. Government has been making a concerted effort to ensure American leadership in AI. These broad strategy documents have influenced organizations such as the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF). The DAF-MIT AI Accelerator is an initiative between the DAF and MIT to bridge the gap between AI researchers and DAF mission requirements. Several projects supported by the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator are developing public challenge problems that address numerous Federal AI research priorities. These challenges target priorities by making large, AI-ready datasets publicly available, incentivizing open-source solutions, and creating a demand signal for dual use technologies that can stimulate further research. In this article, we describe these public challenges being developed and how their application contributes to scientific advances.

美国政府通过一系列联邦倡议和命令进行了有计划地努力，以确保美国在人工智能领域的领先地位，其中包括 DAFC 和 MIT 合作的 AI 加速器项目，通过公开挑战问题的方式促进 AI 技术的发展和对联邦 AI 研究重点的关注。

为美国空军部门制定一系列人工智能挑战赛