What It's Like to Work at MORSE Corp

What practices does your team employ to foster innovation, and how have these practices led to more creative, out-of-the-box thinking?

MORSE is a research and engineering company first and foremost, so we need to innovate constantly to the point of out-innovating ourselves, or else our technology loses relevancy. This focus brings in talented people with good ideas and passion to continuously think about solving challenging problems in unconventional ways. We encourage everyone to have ideas and bring those ideas to bear to solve problems. We encourage exploration of those ideas and often turn these into internal directives to explore new paths. We have teams we call “Pathfinders” that take identified problems, experiment with new approaches and turn around results that can ultimately help the warfighter.

I host a weekly AI chat that anyone in the company is welcome to attend. This is a freeform, open virtual forum to discuss topics in AI, machine learning and machine learning operations. You can come with topics you are interested in or want to learn more about, ideas you may have for specific projects here at MORSE that you want to brainstorm more, or problems you’re encountering while implementing things in projects you’re currently working on.

How has a focus on innovation increased the quality of your team’s work?

We have many examples of topics that spin out of our AI chat into Pathfinders’ efforts. We take modern AI research in literature, academia, open source and the commercial industry and look at how to apply it properly to the problems our customers have. We aren’t here to solve easy problems; the problems we work on are unsolved until we solve them.

MORSE keeps pace with the cutting edge of generative AI research, and this has led to program success. We develop testing methodologies that benchmark the newest LLM and vision language model releases on data relevant for national security. We develop internal tools to increase MORSE effectiveness and encourage everyone at the company to develop tools and come up with ideas that use modern AI to accelerate technology development and keep us on the cutting edge of innovation.