With SandboxAQ, Army futurists to use AI to build better batteries, find ‘novel alloys’

​“Some of the implications are that we now have batteries or, hopefully we’ll have batteries, that are not reliant on rare earth minerals. We don’t have to rely on those coming from adversarial nations such as China,” Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ’s Global Public Sector division, told Breaking Defense.