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Artificial Intelligence Used as Co-Pilot for U.S. Air Force U-2

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Artificial Intelligence Used as Co-Pilot for U.S. Air Force U-2
A U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing prepares to land at Beale AFB, Calif. on Dec. 15 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

In what the U.S. Air Force said was the first time artificial intelligence (AI) has commanded a military system, an AI algorithm helped to steer the radar of a Lockheed Martin [LMT] U-2 reconnaissance aircraft and navigate the plane in a Dec. 15 flight from Beale AFB, Caif. Some of the 27 operational U-2s carry the Raytheon [RTX] Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2A (ASARS-2A) in their nose. The Air Force fiscal 2021 budget requests about $48 million for the "high…

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