AUKUS Partners Demonstrated ‘Real-Time’ AI Tests at Project Convergence
BELFAST — Australia, the UK and the US, the three AUKUS partners, successfully trialled artificial intelligence (AI) enabled uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) and other autonomous capabilities with an eye to cutting identification time of enemy targets.
The trial, which falls under the wider AUKUS Resilient and Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Technologies (RAAIT) line of work, was hailed by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) today, as “the first use of autonomy and AI sensing systems in a real-time military environment.” DSTL is the UK’s military technology experimentation arm.
Though the announcement came today, DSTL said the trial came as apart of the US-hosted multinational Project Convergence Capstone 4 technology experimentation exercise, which took place in the spring. The trial included “several drones” from each of the three AUKUS countries “operating together in the same airspace to achieve a common outcome, whilst being augmented by an AUKUS AI team, which retrained and deployed AI onto the platforms,” according to DSTL.