Lockheed Martin [LMT] is developing a virtual arena it dubs “AI Fight Club” that will open later this year to allow companies and teams to test their artificial intelligence models against one another in different battlespace scenarios.
The first AI Fight Club competition is slated for the fourth quarter with the first scenario being airborne operations in a contested environment, the company said on Tuesday. Future scenarios under consideration include collaborative combat aircraft, the Golden Dome layered homeland missile defense, space-based surveillance and reconnaissance, coastal defense against amphibious assault, and more.
In addition to Lockheed Martin, its partners, competitors, and government are welcome to participate and compete in the synthetic environment, providing opportunities to mature their technologies and for future partnerships and collaboration.
“AI Fight Club uses advanced simulation and visualization to evaluate AI in realistic and complex scenarios that mimic the challenges of modern warfare,” John Clark, Lockheed Martin’s senior vice president of technology and strategic innovation, said in a statement. “It pits AI components against each other, using competition to make capabilities more robust, reliable and effective.”
The synthetic environment will meet Defense Department standard and reference architectures, which Lockheed Martin said will help accelerate technologies from concept to deployment. The virtual arena is expected to be complete by the end of the third quarter.