Dynetics joins DARPA’s unmanned dogfighting effort
Nathan Strout
DARPA wants to use artificial intelligence and unmanned platforms to revolutionize aerial combat.
Dynetics will help DARPA scale up its artificial intelligence air-to-air combat effort, the company said May 6, potentially enabling a pilot to control a fleet of unmanned platforms in a dogfight.
Dynetics said it has been awarded a phase 1 contract as part of DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, an effort to develop artificial intelligence for aerial combat. Among other features, ACE seeks to automate some combat functions, freeing up the human pilot for other tasks in a dogfight.
“The overarching goal of ACE is to use aerial dogfighting as sort of the crucible scenario because of its challenges and its ability to increase the complexity in order to get implementations of artificial intelligence that will help increase and help us understand how to increase trust and combat autonomy with with pilots,†explained Tim Keeter, ACE program manager for Dynetics.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2020/05/18/dynetics-joins-darpas-unmanned-dogfighting-effort/
