US Air Force announces tender for artificial intelligence for UAVs

The US Air Force intends in the near future to equip promising unmanned aerial vehicles with artificial intelligence systems. According to Flightglobal, the Air Force announced a tender for the supply of the above systems.

The US Air Force announced a tender for the development and supply of artificial intelligence systems designed to control promising unmanned aerial vehicles. The tender is held as part of the Skyborg program, applications for participation will be accepted until June 15, 2020. Tender behavior and development control are carried out by the US Air Force Research Laboratory.

The Skyborg program has been run by the US military for the past few years. Currently, developments are being carried out in several directions at once. Scientists are exploring how to create cheap "drones", and software that allows pilots to control drones during the performance of a standard flight task. It is assumed that unmanned wingmen will "work" in tandem with F-35 and F-15EX fighters equipped with artificial intelligence elements, thereby expanding their capabilities. The UAVs will have to fly forward with their radars on to detect enemy radars. The lead fighter will fly with the radar turned off, while receiving information from drones in real time.

In the framework of the announced tender, participants are invited to develop prototypes of a software and hardware complex that allows the navigator of a two-seat fighter to control several wing-drivers at once. It is emphasized that the prototype should be created on a modular basis, i.e. Additional functions should not be added to the system by a complete flashing, but by adding a new module.

According to the plans of the US Air Force, the first guided drones with a new control system should be put into service no earlier than 2023.

Comments

[The leader of the Redskins]

Exactly for the UAV? And then I still remember George W. Bush. So there, along the way, and many senior officials need AI!))))

[Thrifty]

For a start, let them give the exact wording of the concept of "artificial intelligence"!

[novel66]

it’s elementary - you take a blonde, repainted in a brunette and put in a UAV

[rocket757]

For such a big thing .... it's still too early!
Although, the level of tasks is not great, you can do something truncated, "childish" to bungle.

[KCA]

Our S-70 already flew in tandem with the SU-57 without operator control, so it's time

[rocket757]

There are only AI elements announced. I don’t know how concepts began to erode for the sake of ambitions of all sorts and different.

[NEXUS]

Quote: KCA

Our S-70 already flew in tandem with the SU-57 without operator control, so it's time

Our robot Vityaz has already autonomously descended into the Mariana Trench, and returned.

He set the flag of the Russian Federation at the bottom. And to date, no one has ever created a deep-sea robot capable of doing this offline without interfering with the operator’s control of the surface.

[KCA]

I'm not sure about the "Knight", it still hung on a cable and a cable, lifted it as if by hand, well, that is. winch

[NEXUS]

Quote: KCA

I'm not sure about the "Knight", it still hung on a cable and a cable, lifted it as if by hand, well, that is. winch

Who told you that? The hero is a completely autonomous robot.

Of course, they lifted him from the water with cranes, but he did everything else in the water on his own.

[Kerensky]

He set the flag of the Russian Federation at the bottom. And to date, no one has ever created a deep-sea robot capable of doing this offline without interfering with the operator’s control of the surface.

Hmm! .. If you screw the nut on the bottom of the flag and gurgle? Can't "install"?
I'll try in the pond.

[NEXUS]

Quote: Kerensky

Hmm! .. If you screw the nut on the bottom of the flag and gurgle? Can't "install"?
I'll try in the pond.

Yeah ... and at the same time, screwing the nut, make a three-dimensional map of the bottom of the reservoir. I'd like to look at your attempts. Yeah ...

[Kerensky]

make a three-dimensional map of the bottom of the reservoir.

For a pond, you can poke a stick and bring it into the table.
For a deep-sea object, you can also do with an epoxy with a Kevlar thread at the level of the Young Technician magazine ...

[NEXUS]

Quote: Kerensky

For a deep-sea object, you can also do with an epoxy with a Kevlar thread at the level of the Young Technician magazine ...

A curtain!

[Kerensky]

Andrew!
The article is not about that. What is AI for a pilot-UAV link? The kadavrik has six standard tasks. Do you agree? The rest are variations: "6.0 ... 5.1.9.3 ...."
That is, it is enough to screw the drones from the game Parkan, control from the Elite, well, and not to inflate the code. The same Elite worked on 48 Kilobytes (!) Of RAM and a Z80 process.

[sabakina]

Andrey, at the age of three I was drowning in my village in a fire pond. On the surface, only the panama swam. If Cyril wants to experience my sensations, let him gurgle.

[Normal ok]

Quote: NEXUS

Quote: KCA

Our S-70 already flew in tandem with the SU-57 without operator control, so it's time

Our robot Vityaz has already autonomously descended into the Mariana Trench, and returned.

He set the flag of the Russian Federation at the bottom

Strongly said.

[AUTOHTON]

Quote: rocket757

For such a big thing .... it's still too early!
Although, the level of tasks is not great, you can do something truncated, "childish" to bungle.

Well, there will obviously be many Russian-speaking people ...
And then they will be slammed! You understand me men!

[rocket757]

Those who have taken root there are already there. They made their choice. Now we do not care about them, ourselves, ourselves.

[A. Privalov]

Well, the American special services have long learned how to disconnect people via satellite, so it will not be harder to steal the brains of an unmanned aircraft.

[sabakina]

Quote: A. Privalov

Well, the American special services have long learned how to disconnect people via satellite, so it will not be harder to steal the brains of an unmanned aircraft.

I have long said that they are cyborgs. They flooded the whole planet!

[AUTOHTON]

Quote: sabakina

I have long said that they are cyborgs. They flooded the whole planet!

Our wallets and cards ..there I agree!

[Doccor18]

A swarm of UAVs, followed by 2-3 fighter control and guidance. Behind this bunch is the future of the Air Force. The whole question is the creation of AI and secure channels for transmitting information.

[Stena]

Quote: Doccor18

Roy UAV

Correctly say - "dig, not swarm!" =)

[KVU-NSVD]

UAVs will have to fly forward with radars on to detect enemy radar.

A dangerous tandem can turn out. Especially if you manage to make such a drone a cheap consumable. True, you will have to give the drone EPR and the speed of the fighter, otherwise the air defense systems will easily "weed out" them by priority. Air defense personnel should think about new methods of fighting.

[voyaka uh]

"The truth is, you have to give the drone EPR and fighter speed," ///
----
This drone Kratos is a jet. Flies at a speed of 0.85 MAX.
EPR is comparable to modern consumers.

[Alex66]

In vain they indulge with this AI, did not carefully look at the Terminator. AI can accept them as a threat.

[sabakina]

Program skyborg with a flick of the hand turns into SkyNet.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: sabakina

Program skyborg with a flick of the hand turns into SkyNet.

I don’t have sky, great provider!

[Sergey39]

Another failed waste on a super-duper weapon. Of course, this is the future, but distant. Not by 2023.

[asv363]

US Air Force announces tender for artificial intelligence for UAVs

Its not enough?

[sabakina]

If only they didn’t pass their own to robots.

[asv363]

If they bombed wedding trains with theirs, now the UAV will do it.

[askort154]

asv363 ..... What's missing?

Americans play with AI when they understand who on the planet Earth craps the most.

[askort154]

In the framework of the announced tender, participants are invited to develop prototypes of a software and hardware complex that allows the navigator of a two-seat fighter to control several wing-drivers at once.

And what kind of AI is it, if it is controlled by a live homo sapiens with a navigational ruler in its hands.

[bk316]

And what kind of AI

AI elements. The tasks are simple - the detection and suppression of air defense. In fact, AI doesn’t need detection and selection of targets here, the problem has long been solved on our air defense systems without any AI. Maybe here the AI ​​is generally for advertising. Some kind of AI is needed to fully cover the leader, but also primitive.

[voyaka uh]

"if it is controlled by a living homo sapiens" ///
----
It’s not to be controlled, it flies on the map, according to its program,
and get information from him.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: askort154

In the framework of the announced tender, participants are invited to develop prototypes of a software and hardware complex that allows the navigator of a two-seat fighter to control several wing-drivers at once.

And what kind of AI is it, if it is controlled by a live homo sapiens with a navigational ruler in its hands.

Living homo sapiens will give them commands, for this they mold AI

[Zaurbek]

AI in Russia oversees Sberbank.

[spectr]

It is emphasized that the prototype should be created on a modular basis, i.e. Additional functions should not be added to the system by a complete flashing, but by adding a new module.

Screwed up, IMHO. Artificial intelligence is a self-learning system, and here it seems, taking into account the requirements, everything will degenerate into a limited set of algorithms.

[voyaka uh]

Self-learning, I think, will be only pieces of software.
And most of it: like unmanned car software in a city.
All the information will be received and recorded by the host, flying from behind.
So they will teach and "wind up" the software gradually.

[engineer74]

Rossnano and Skolkovo simply have to participate and win this tender! USAF and DARPA budgets will definitely not suffer such a blow

[gridasov]

The good thing is that the Americans recognized the impossibility of creating a quantum computer without solving the mathematical foundations of combinatorial optimization of big data. And this, in principle, does not make it possible to use AI as such. Since associative computational tasks are not analysis, but banal simple functions, this is done, and this is not done and is not perceived at all, etc.

[syndicalist]

In my opinion, the use of AI provides two main possibilities:
1) Autonomous movement in the database area, which makes the electronic warfare systems useless.
2) Independent decision-making on the destruction of manpower, which opens up new horizons in hybrid wars

[bk316]

AI provides two main features

neither one nor the other is clear. Can you explain?
Why electronic warfare is useless, electronic warfare is not limited to suppressing communications with UAVs, the tasks of electronic warfare are much wider.
What are the new horizons in hybrid wars, anyway, the side that used it is responsible for the UAV.

[syndicalist]

EW capabilities are almost completely limited by communication suppression. Plus interference for satellite navigation. No, theoretically it is possible to create such a field strength that will cause a malfunction or failure of the electronics, but it is unlikely that it will ever be somehow effective outside the laboratory walls.
As for the "hybrid" application, here it is much easier for those who have applied it to unlock - they say, not mine, the market is full of such. Unlike ichtamnet, the drone will not report anything if the self-destruct module fails and under torture.

[bk316]

EW capabilities are almost completely limited by communication suppression.

Not at all, learn the materiel, the electronic warfare tasks are basically reduced to suppressing radar, GPS, and similar devices. As for communication suppression, communication is not only with UAVs. Thus, AI will make EWs not completely useless, but 5 percent.

Unlike ichtamnet,

A lot of pilots shot down over the past 20 years captured? And how many hit drummers failed to determine the origin? It seems that the answer to both questions is 0.

[Fantazer911]

If AI will be developed in the USA, then it will obviously think like the State Department, and this is with their warlike rhetoric, and it’s not far from the war, the Pentagon is obviously preparing for war, and at such a pace, this is clearly not good!

[Comrade Michael]

Well, you are dreamers in discussions .... We need to know the state of our brains today ....))) They dream of intelligence with science, which is 59th in the world ...))) we are 30 years behind, and I I think so far no one is really reducing our distance in this area. How do I know that? These are my professional conjectures ...) Some patriots like it or not, and the United States will remain the leader in the military-industrial complex and science. And we are crouching on the sidelines for 20-30 years ...

[spectr]

Whether some patriots like it or not, the United States will remain the leader in the military-industrial complex and science. And we are crouching on the sidelines for 20-30 years ...

Today the USA is a leader, but their future is foggy. They have a competitor to China. He also began to buy up brains from around the world, as America does.
The size of the curb depends on the direction. Where at the level, and somewhere and all 60 years behind.

[bk316]

somewhere and all 60 years behind.

I’m directly interested.
In what area of ​​the military-industrial complex or scientific discipline are we at the level of the USA of the 60s?

[Comrade Michael]

I know the USA will fall apart someday ... And everyone will fall apart. And we will not fall apart, we will just sit on the sidelines with a proud look.

[Comrade Michael]

And I myself worked in the department of advanced developments, though 20 years ago, but this does not stop me from noticing that we are moving very very slowly, and there are also open vacancies on xx. Ru and there you can see what kind of funny salaries are offered for serious engineers .... Well, you yourself absolutely must not be appreciated. I didn’t look for myself, but to prevent children from falling into poverty, as I did in my time.

[Comrade Michael]

My father and mother have been doing this all my life. They knew everything from the inside ...

[bk316]

My father and mother have been doing this all my life.

And the supervisor of my supervisor (Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, creator of truly Soviet computers) granddaughter is an artist. Do you think she understands microkernel OS?

[Comrade Michael]

And yes, all the serious literature on this subject by American authors. Russia in these areas of scientific research occupies a place in the last twenty ...

[bk316]

Russia in these areas of scientific research occupies a place in the last twenty ...

But minus the lies. Although the rating is biased, it is still not in the last twenty, but in the first thirty.
https://ai4d.ai/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ai-gov-readiness-report_v08.pdf

[Comrade Michael]

You can rub on. But to engage in science, it seems to me, it’s not about TV to talk about analogue and disyters on the Internet to rub, which do not pull on the course ....

[bk316]

But to engage in science, it seems to me, it’s not about TV to talk about analogue and disyters on the Internet to rub, which do not pull on the course ....

You are certainly right, although obviously you didn’t do either In the sense of neither science nor work on TV

[Comrade Michael]

I'm violet what you think and say. I myself read modern dissertations. 87% trash.

[bk316]

what you think and say.

Are we already on you?

I myself read modern dissertations.

The second time is no longer ridiculous - people who can judge the level of development of certain areas in science do not read dissertations - THEY WRITE THEM

[Comrade Michael]

I did not speak about it. But I'm from this environment. I have a fairly high intellectual and educational level and a good life experience. And I see clearly, professionally, how I and others hang noodles on my ears ... Prof. deformation.