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DARPA Plans to Re-Use Aerial Dogfight Algorithms for ISR, EW

Frank Wolfe

Friday, October 9th, 2020

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to re-use algorithms employed in the recent AlphaDogfightTrial (ADT) for research on artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); electronic warfare (EW); decision-making; and other purposes. In ADT, eight industry teams pitted their AI dogfighting agents against one another in F-16 simulators and against U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots in a lab environment. "We look forward to applying all the technology that we explored and built up as…

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