Darpa passes his AI hunting program at the upper level

Imagine Top gun without pilots. Not exactly summer success equipment. But this is what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has in mind for the future of the army. According to an announcement identified by the register, the agency recently delivered a several million dollars contract which will advance its autonomous pilot program which will end up deploying planes in the war without human being behind the control stick.

The contract, announced earlier this week, was awarded to research on systems and technologies, a real business and not a front with the most vague imaginable name, and will provide the company $ 11.3 million to work on the reinforcement program for reinforcing Darpa artificial intelligence (Air). The contract concerns phase two of the project, which the DARPA describes as “the development of AIA algorithmic approaches which allow an autonomous tactical execution distributed in real time in uncertain, dynamic and complex operational environments.” Which seems to be a very technical way of saying “operating in the air”.

The agency’s expectation is that research on systems and technologies and any other entrepreneur participating in the program develop these systems using existing sensor and weapon technologies. They will be required, through a series of tests and simulations, to possibly respond to certain currently unfains references which show the capacity to produce “an unrelated combat vehicle”.

According to DARPA, the airline program aims to develop a “tactical autonomy led by AI” which can possibly deploy unmanned air -combat vehicles (UCAV) as part of air combat missions. The program is in a way a stage in the second stage of the agency Air Combat Evolution initiative, which previously managed to allow the AI to take control of an F-16 in mid-volume and to engage in dog fights against human pilots. An AI system has developed as part of the ACE also beat human pilots in virtual dog fights.

Systems and technology research seems to be the first company to receive an invitation in phase two of the Darpa program, suggesting that it has already completed the first declared objective of “creating fast and precise models which capture uncertainty and automatically improve with more data”. According to the register, the contractual defense giants of the Lockheed Martin and the BAE systems were also involved in the first stages of the program, but were not confirmed as part of phase two, which will see Darpa shrive its group of potential entrepreneurs from six to four.

Darpa has his eyes on the sky with this program, but it will also independent in the seas. Earlier this week, he announced the baptism of the USX-1 Defier, an autonomous and unruly surface ship, and announced that he was preparing it for the launch of his first demonstration at sea.