The artificial intelligence that helps protect national security is “here to stay,” and the US Air Force is already showing how AI can dominate the airspace.
“We have to recognize that AI is here. It’s here to stay. It’s a powerful tool,” Air Force Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said in a video released by the Air Force Research Laboratory. .
The Ohio-headquartered AFRL this month detailed plans for how autonomous drones will act as wingmen for pilots in the future, including training artificial intelligence on the experimental Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie drone.
The AFRL’s Office of Strategic Development, Planning and Experimentation is conducting an operational experiment to determine the scope of work ahead to train AI to operate aircraft, according to the Army. ‘air.
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An Air Force Research Laboratory simulation exercise (An Air Force Research Laboratory simulation exercise)
“Our senior leaders have been clear and direct in saying, we’re dealing with a new technology, and we’re dealing with a new threat. We need to move fast to determine the competitive advantage of autonomy and how to ultimately operationalize autonomy. for the fighter,” experimentation manager Matthew “Rico” Niemiec said in the Air Force video of the research.
The military branch is currently working to “mature the concepts of autonomy through digital simulation”, then to apply them to real situations.
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“Running these neural networks takes millions and millions of runs, practice runs,” Chief “Evil” test pilot Bill Gray said in the video. “You can’t do that in a real plane… But you can do it in a simulator.”
An Air Force Research Laboratory simulation exercise (Air Force Research Laboratory)
Once the technology is judged by experts to be “mature enough in simulation”, it is applied to a flight test where “pilots can actually do without it”.
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“One of the benefits of testing is our ability to experiment and demonstrate some of these capabilities in a controlled environment. Both so that we can derive important data and lessons learned, so that we can develop our systems and reduce risks to future development, while ensuring that we are on the right path,” said Lt. Col. Ben “Baja” Gilliland.
Air Force Autonomous Aircraft Experience. (An Air Force Research Laboratory simulation exercise)
The Air Force team explained that they keep track of the number of lives lost over the years to accidents or collisions, and that they are working towards a future where the military is not at such risk. , which would be a “huge benefit to this community”. according to band technical director Jessica “Sting” Peterson.
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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall spoke about the importance of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) air superiority initiative in May, noting that the U.S. military will “lose” its edge “if we don’t let’s not move now” on high-powered technology.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is conducting an autonomous aircraft experiment. (An Air Force Research Laboratory simulation exercise)
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“The NGAD will include attributes such as increased lethality and the ability to survive, persist, interoperate and adapt in the air domain, all in highly contested operating environments. No one does it better than the NGAD. ‘US Air Force, but we’ll lose that advantage if we don’t move forward now,’ Kendall said.
That sentiment was echoed by Air Force members working on the experiment, who said the technology will ultimately increase the “survivability of our human operators.”
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“We need industry to work alongside academia, alongside DoD, to get us to the future state, allowing us to protect our national security interests against an adversary who does not share our values,” Hamilton said.