General Dynamics will be required to procure, operate and maintain web server platform hardware and software to include redundant systems with satisfactory data backup, security, intrusion detection, and capacity support production, staging, development, analysis, and web activities, the Trans Regional Web Initiative contract states.

Conducting a war of words is a hot topic. In July, BBN got $29.7 million from the Air Force to develop a prototype machine reading system that transforms prose into knowledge that can be interpreted by an artificial intelligence application.

The prototype is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Machine Reading Program (MRP) that wants to develop systems that can capture knowledge from naturally occurring text and transform it into the formal representations used by AI reasoning systems.

The idea is that such an intelligent learning system could gather and analyze information from the Web such as international technological advances or plans and rhetoric of political organizations and unleash a wide variety of new military and civilian AI applications from intelligent bots to personal tutors according to DARPA.