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AI Flew USAF Aircraft For Over 17 Hours

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Lockheed Martin's VISTA X-62A training aircraft was flown autonomously by an AI agent for over 17 hours.

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VISTA can simulate the performance characteristics of other aircraft and on this occasion, mimicked a human pilot.

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The flight occurred during a testing period in December and is the first time AI has been engaged in such a way on a tactical aircraft.

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Lockheed plans to use the platform to test aircraft designs that can be flown autonomously.

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The USAF Test Pilot School director of research sees this as a way to parallelize the development and test of cutting-edge AI techniques with new uncrewed vehicle designs.

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The platform is designed to rapidly mature autonomy for uncrewed platforms and allow the delivery of tactically relevant capability to the warfighter.

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VISTA was built for the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base by Lockheed's skunk works division in collaboration with Calspan.

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The VISTA program has been used to develop the virtual heads-up display and voice command input system for the F-35 Lightning II.

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The VISTA X-62A was upgraded by the USAF with Lockheed's Model Following Algorithm and System for Autonomous Control of the Simulation.

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These systems help VISTA carry out advanced flight tests that harness autonomy and AI.

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