Introduction Radar technologies remain essential to critical national security functions. Modern radars dramatically eclipse the capabilities of the first radars deployed in WWII, but the foundational principles of electromagnetic sensing animate all radars deployed over the past eighty years. I… Read More »Designing, Building, & Analyzing an FMCW Radar
Introduction Justifying its pursuit of a dramatically more protectionist trade policy than its recent predecessors, the Trump Administration claimed that tariffs serve as a useful negotiation tool to remake the global trade system, correcting perceived injustices against America. In his… Read More »Tariffs and Trade Negotiations
Suspicion of America’s federal government runs rampant. Organizations that once enjoyed broad support, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), now suffer from diminished public confidence.1 Despite growing skepticism, however, two out of three Americans recognize that faith… Read More »The NFL’s Lessons for Policymakers
Party standard-bearers since the Truman years have emphasized the need for greater government efficiency to confront the challenges of the age. President-elect Trump recently joined the list, calling on entrepreneurs Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to lead an initiative he… Read More »POGE: The Politics of Government Efficiency
Across the democratic world, elections focus sharply on quality-of-life issues. Voters’ concerns over persistently high youth unemployment rates contributed to an unexpectedly poor showing for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)1. In France, President Emmanuel Macron will… Read More »For a Great Society, Look No Further Than Smaller Government
On a May 5th interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria1, Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, outlined a vision for how Artificial Intelligence (AI) could affect America’s and allied nations’ military preparedness. He noted that predictive maintenance models… Read More »The Risks Facing a Transnational AI Strategy
Author’s Note: As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) practitioner, I constantly think about compute capacity. Testing production-ready, robust infrastructure to serve and monitor Large Language Model (LLM) apps is one of my key responsibilities as an engineer with FoundationaLLM. My experience… Read More »The Future of Federal Supercomputing
In February of this year, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives announced a task force to investigate concerns surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), chaired by Republican Jay Obernolte and Democrat Ted Lieu, according to reporting by Reuters. Observers of… Read More »A Historical Perspective on the U.S. House of Representatives’ AI Task Force
Introduction Matrix multiplication is among the most foundational of algorithms in scientific computing, used in fields ranging from computational fluid dynamics to artificial intelligence. Naturally, building high-performance implementations is of great concern to engineers. The massive parallelism provided by GPUs… Read More »Accelerating Matrix Multiplication using FPGAs
Introduction Open-source base LLMs, like Facebook’s LLaMA or Microsoft’s Phi models, provide an excellent starting point for natural language processing tasks. Typically, however, these models aren’t well-suited for domain-specific tasks; developers must fine-tune a subset of the model’s weights to… Read More »Fine-tuning LLMs with QLoRA