USCG Project Minerva (AI Maritime Domain Awareness)
organizationAI & Compute · Intelligence & Surveillance · Darknet & Cyber
The Coast Guard is using AI to shift from 'patrol and catch' to 'target and catch,' fusing every sensor into one live picture.
Who they are
USCG Project Minerva, a US Coast Guard program applying AI and computer vision to watching the seas.
What they do
The engine records it as a documented case of AI surveillance being wired into military operations.
How it works
It combines systems called Sextant and Minotaur (the latter built for the Navy and tied into Project Maven around 2019) to fuse sensor feeds into one real-time operational picture, moving the Coast Guard toward a data-driven 'target and interdict' posture. The engine stresses it shares only the name 'Minerva' with the Pentagon's social-science program, with no documented common project between them.
Why it matters
It's a concrete example of AI-driven surveillance in action, and the engine flags the name overlap precisely so people don't wrongly merge two unrelated programs.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #122] A US Coast Guard initiative applying AI / machine learning / computer vision to maritime domain awareness, integrating the Sextant and Minotaur systems (Minotaur originally developed for the US Navy by JHU Applied Physics Lab; integrated with Project Maven ~2019) to fuse sensor feeds for a real-time operational picture — shifting posture from 'patrol and interdict' to a data-driven 'target and interdict' model (Force Design 2028 / Coastal Sentinel). RECORD: documented AI surveillance integration; shares only the 'Minerva' NAME with the DoD social-science initiative (minerva_dod_social) — no documented common program.
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