U.S. Air Force Secretary Kendall Flies in AI-piloted X-62A VISTA
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., May 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
VISTA is an AI pathfinder that facilitates development and testing of cutting-edge AI techniques with new uncrewed vehicle designs. This work 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 first AI versus human dogfight and completed over 100,000 lines of flight-critical software changes across 21 test flights.
"The need for innovation at speed and scale is greater than ever. The X-62A VISTA is a crucial platform in our efforts to develop, test and integrate AI, as well as to establish AI certification standards that will revolutionize the future of aerospace," said
This architecture has proven to be reliable and robust enough to transition into third-party distributed hardware to replicate safe and controlled flight test objectives as demonstrated by VISTA.
The achievements of and technologies developed through the
Secretary Kendall's flight closely follows several major VISTA recognitions for work done as part of
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