DARPA transmits the AI Fighter Jet program to the next level

Perceive Pistol Donemen. Not exactly the summer materials, but this is what the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks for the future of the army. According to advertisement I was monitored before RecordThe agency recently handed over a contract of millions of dollars that would drive its independent experimental program that will eventually spread the aircraft in the war without the human being behind the control stick.

The contract, announced earlier this week Systems and Technology ResearchIt is a real company and not an interface bearing a mysterious name that can be imagined, and the company will be provided with $ 11.3 million to work on the DarPa AI (AIR). The contract is dedicated to the second stage of the project, which DarPA Describe As “the development of an algorithm approach driven by AI, which allows in an actual time to implement an independent tactic in the actual time in unconfirmed, dynamic and complex operating environments.” Which seems to be a very technical way to say “Work in the air”.

The agency expects that research and technology and any other contractor who participates in the program develops these systems using current sensors and weapons techniques. Through a series of tests and simulation, they will eventually be requested to meet some unlimited standards currently that show the production capacity of a “unavailable combat air vehicle”.

According to DarpaThe aerial program aims to develop “tactical autonomy driven by artificial intelligence”, which can ultimately spread uninhabited combat vehicles (UCAV) as part of air combat tasks. The program is something from the second stage to the agency Air fighting initiativeThat was able before Allow Amnesty International to control F-16 and Execution in battles against human pilots. The artificial intelligence system has been developed as part of ACE previously Overcoming human pilots in virtual battlesalso.

Systems and technology research seems to be the first company to receive an invitation in the second stage of DarPa, indicating that it has already completed the first declared goal of “creating fast and accurate models that capture uncertainty and improve more data automatically.” According to registration, Lockheed Martin and Bae Systems participated in the contract in the first stages of the program, but it was not confirmed that it is part of the second stage, which will witness DARPA reducing its group of potential contractors from six to four.

Darpa has her eyes on the sky with this program, but she is also independent in the seas. Earlier this week, I announced baptism USX-1 DefiantIt is an uninhabited superficial ship of its kind, and announced that it was preparing to launch its first demonstration in the sea.