U.Sec. Air Forcefulness Secretary Kendall Flies Inwards Ai-Piloted Ten-62A Vista
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) joined the U.southward. Air Force Test Pilot School as well as other government in addition to industry partners inwards hosting U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall to fly inward the X-62A Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA), a ane-of-a-kind aircraft modified to test artificial news (AI) as well as autonomy capabilities.VISTA is an AI pathfinder that facilitates development together with testing of cut-border AI techniques alongside new uncrewed vehicle designs. This function is essential to realizing distributed teaming. In less than a year, the teams installed initial live AI agents into the X-62A's systems, demonstrated the offset AI versus homo dogfight together with completed over 100,000 lines of flight-critical software changes across 21 test flights.
Lockheed Martin's open systems architecture, which leverages Skunk Works' Model Following Algorithm (MFA) as well as System for Autonomous Control of the Simulation (SACS), enables highly complex tests. These important updates heighten VISTA'second capabilities spell maintaining its rapid-prototyping advantage, allowing for quick changes to software and the power to behave flying tests alongside not bad frequency, accelerating the stride of AI and autonomy evolution to come across urgent national defence force priorities.
This architecture has proven to be reliable together with robust enough to transition into third-party distributed hardware to replicate safety as well as controlled flying exam objectives as demonstrated by VISTA. Lockheed Martin is at the forefront of fusing AI-enabled platform autonomy with man oversight to accelerate operational speed, maximize agility together with cutting sustainment costs.
The achievements of as well as technologies developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) programme will serve every bit a foundation for hereafter advances in safer, more reliable, together with more than efficient aviation – both for military too commercial domains.
Secretary Kendall'second flight closely follows several major VISTA recognitions for go done as role of DARPA'second ACE plan, including being nominated equally finalists for the 2023 Robert J. Collier Trophy together with receiving the Society of Flight Test Engineers' James southward. McDonnell Award as well as Aviation Week'second 2024 Laureate Award for Defense.
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"The postulate for invention at speed and scale is greater than always. The X-62A VISTA is a crucial platform in our efforts to train, examination too integrate AI, too as to constitute AI certification standards that volition revolutionize the time to come of aerospace," said John Clark, vice president too full general manager, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. "Our proven hardware in addition to software architecture enable prophylactic and controlled environments for AI agents too advanced algorithms to apace image in addition to develop."
Lockheed Martin's open systems architecture, which leverages Skunk Works' Model Following Algorithm (MFA) as well as System for Autonomous Control of the Simulation (SACS), enables highly complex tests. These important updates heighten VISTA'second capabilities spell maintaining its rapid-prototyping advantage, allowing for quick changes to software and the power to behave flying tests alongside not bad frequency, accelerating the stride of AI and autonomy evolution to come across urgent national defence force priorities.
This architecture has proven to be reliable together with robust enough to transition into third-party distributed hardware to replicate safety as well as controlled flying exam objectives as demonstrated by VISTA. Lockheed Martin is at the forefront of fusing AI-enabled platform autonomy with man oversight to accelerate operational speed, maximize agility together with cutting sustainment costs.
The achievements of as well as technologies developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) programme will serve every bit a foundation for hereafter advances in safer, more reliable, together with more than efficient aviation – both for military too commercial domains.
Secretary Kendall'second flight closely follows several major VISTA recognitions for go done as role of DARPA'second ACE plan, including being nominated equally finalists for the 2023 Robert J. Collier Trophy together with receiving the Society of Flight Test Engineers' James southward. McDonnell Award as well as Aviation Week'second 2024 Laureate Award for Defense.
SOURCE Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
