DARPA awards contracts for teaming manned and autonomous aircraft in aerial dogfighting

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Source: Aero Vodochody

Several months after an artificially intelligent software program beat an experienced fighter pilot in a simulated aerial dogfight, DARPA is moving onto the next phase of its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program: teaching autonomous programs to team with human pilots in combat.

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