TurbineOne, a U.S. intel analytics software company, has been awarded a multi-year contract from the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit to prototype new machine learning capabilities. This press release features the announcement of a new feature of TurbineOne’s Frontline Perception System called Sidekick, which leverages a computer science method called Zero Shot to accurately identify objects without the need for extensive web infrastructure, metadata standards, and previously labeled training data. TurbineOne is revolutionizing the ingestion of images from video cameras and satellite images as well as non-visual sensor data feeds.