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Boeing, Shield AI Explore Bringing AI-Enabled Autonomy To Military Aircraft

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 9th, 2023

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Boeing, Shield AI Explore Bringing AI-Enabled Autonomy To Military Aircraft

V-BAT medium-size UAS in a maritime application. V-BAT is a Shield AI product. Photo: Shield AI

Boeing [BA] on Wednesday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shield AI to explore leveraging the latter company’s capabilities in artificial intelligence and autonomy for autonomously piloting aircraft to military platforms. Shield AI’s key software is Hivemind, which is an AI-enabled pilot for military and commercial aircraft that doesn’t require GPS, waypoints or communications to make decisions. This capability means that aircraft equipped with Hivemind can operate in highly contested and GPS-denied environments, and fly in swarms.…

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