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Skunk Works Partnership Demonstrates Airborne Battle Management With AI-Controlled Aircraft

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Skunk Works Partnership Demonstrates Airborne Battle Management With AI-Controlled Aircraft
A battle manager sends real-time commands to AI-controlled aircraft during a flight test over Iowa. Photo: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin [LMT] this year has been conducting flight-tests of artificial intelligence-controlled aircraft in air-to-air engagements, including a more recent demonstration where a human “battle manager” aboard a fighter jet trainer commanded AI-controlled aircraft using a computer touchscreen. The testing is being done by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works unit in partnership with the company’s Demonstrations and Prototypes organization, and the University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory. In the tests, the battle manager aboard an L-39 Albatros assigned targets to two…

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