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Boeing Australia is linking up with Australia’s Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre to collaborate on the development of advanced artificial intelligence technologies to create smarter unmanned systems for global forces.
In a statement, Boeing said “embedding machine learning techniques onboard will help unmanned systems better understand and react to threat environments”.
“Over the next 12 months, Boeing Australia will design and test cognitive AI algorithms to enable sensing under anti-access conditions and to navigate and conduct enhanced tactics in denied environments,” said Dr Shane Arnott, director of Phantom Works International.
It marks the first time Boeing has developed an innovation project with the Defence Cooperative Research Centre (DCRC), as the two work towards examining an unmanned system’s route planning, location and identification of objects and the platform’s subsequent behavioural response.
“Together with Boeing, we are investing in advanced technology that can have real game-changing product outcomes for our military to match the evolving threats and achieve a sustainable autonomous industry for Australia,” said Professor Jason Scholz, chief executive officer of the DCRC for Trusted Autonomous Systems.
The DCRC for Trusted Autonomous Systems was announced by the Australian government in 2017 to support the rapid creation and transition of industry-led trustworthy smart-machine technologies through the innovation ecosystem to the Australian Defence Force.
Boeing also confirmed that they would be working with Australian university partners and Brisbane-based supplier RF Designs to flight-test and evaluate the capability with autonomous high-performance jets.
