DARPA X-planes paved the way for the F-47 | DARPA
Mar 21, 2025 · The rendering highlights the Air Force’s sixth generation fighter, the F-47. The NGAD Platform will bring lethal, next-generation technologies to ensure air superiority for the Joint Force in any conflict.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin Each Flew an X-Plane in Preparation …
Mar 23, 2025 · After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew in 2019 and 2022. In another bit of ...
ACE Program’s AI Agents Transition from Simulation to Live Flight - DARPA
Feb 13, 2023 · In less than three years, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms developed under DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program have progressed from controlling simulated F-16s flying aerial dogfights on computer screens to controlling an actual F-16 in flight.
Why DARPA put AI at the controls of a fighter jet
Feb 18, 2023 · DARPA and the Air Force Research Lab tried out different AI algorithms at the controls of an F-16-like jet to test out their flying skills.
US Air Force stages dogfights with AI-flown fighter jet - Defense News
Apr 19, 2024 · An experimental fighter jet has squared off against an F-16 in the first-ever artificial intelligence-fueled dogfights, the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.
ACE: Air Combat Evolution - DARPA
In a future air domain contested by adversaries, a single human pilot can increase lethality by effectively orchestrating multiple autonomous unmanned platforms from within a manned aircraft. This shifts the human role from single platform operator to mission commander.
This AI-controlled jet fighter has now flown against human pilots
Apr 19, 2024 · This AI-controlled jet fighter has now flown against human pilots After flying against simulated opponents, the AI agent has taken on humans.
In a 'world first,' DARPA project demonstrates AI dogfighting in …
Apr 19, 2024 · Officials emphasize that AI’s ability to dogfight is a spectacular feat, but the capability is a means to a bigger end: demonstrating that AI can be trusted to fly a fighter jet, paving the way...
DARPA's Groundbreaking "ACE" Program and X-62A Becomes …
Apr 17, 2024 · In an unprecedented achievement, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has announced that through its “ACE” program the X-62A “VISTA” has become the first autonomous fighter jet in the world to successfully engage in aerial dogfighting maneuvers against a manned F-16.
DARPA tests dogfighting AI against human fighter pilot
Apr 18, 2024 · Using a specially modified Lockheed Martin F-16D known as the X-62A VISTA, DARPA challenged an AI algorithm to engage in within-visual-range (WVR) combat – better known as dogfighting or turn...