DARPA Awards BAE Systems $4 Million for Autonomous Beyond Visual Range Air Combat Program
Published on September 14, 2024
Autonomy solutions for BVR combat will initially be developed and demonstrated on F-16 testbeds and then transferred to an unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs arm a $4 million contract for Phase 1 of the AIR (Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements) program to develop AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) systems for autonomous BVR (Beyond Visual Range) combat.
FAST Labs will combine AI and ML (Machine Learning) to design “models” and “simulations” with existing sensors and weapons for decision-making in complex aerial combat scenarios for “BVR (Beyond Visual Range) air combat missions.”