What I’ve argued strenuously with this technology, is that not all pilots are created equal. “Historically, the way we’ve done is we go into a syllabus and all pilots start together, and we’d all graduate on certain days. “There is an interesting thing there around the efficiency in the production of pilots,” Robinson said. And the bespoke nature of the ATARS perhaps means less pilots dropping out, Robinson continued. The algorithmic capabilities offer flexibility and adaptability to pilots’ skill levels and strengths/weaknesses. “We’ve been leveraging a lot of that work to inform our own AI algorithms.” “We have been doing that in conjunction with some of the companies coming out of the DARPA programs, the Alpha Dog-Fight Ace Program, autonomous AI,” the Red 6 CEO stated. The AI capability was shaped by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-developed technologies, Robinson noted. I can tell you now that the test pilots on a daily basis are fully autonomous AI algorithms that are thinking, fighting, flying for themselves.” The second way is to control them virtually, put a pilot in a virtual reality headset on the ground, flying avatars of themselves in real space against those up in the airplanes. “One is to do prescriptive behavior … with a given set of performance parameters. “There are three fundamental ways to control these entities,” Dan Robinson, founder and CEO of Red 6, clarified. These are enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that can be tailored to pilots’ individual skills. The ATARS capability itself has evolved in the last five years from rendering refueling tankers, aircraft opponents such as the Chinese J-20 and the Russian Su-57, and other digital assets midair to provide an even more complex synthetic environment. In addition to ATARS, Red 6 has grown its synthetic air combat training platform into a larger digital ecosystem that includes the Combined Augmented Reality Battlespace Operational Network, or CARBON, and the Augmented Reality Command and Analytic Data Environment, or ARCADE. Red 6’s groundbreaking-and first of its kind-ATARS technology will allow fighter pilots using the Hawk a more realistic training environment in the skies-being closer to digital opponents in a dynamic air combat environment, where they can reach several hundred miles per hour and pull gravitational forces (Gs) of 9 Gs while interacting with the digital assets. Another contract of £794 million, set in February with the Royal Australian Air Force, has BAE continuing to train Australian fighter pilots and provide Hawk upgrades-including new Rolls-Royce 951 Adour engines, software and other hardware additions-through 2031. In March, the company announced it had secured a £590 million contract to support the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force Hawk fleet for 12 more years. ![]() ![]() “Our latest Hawks just rolled off the production line in September, so there is a whole lot of many years ahead of us,” she said. This latest step has BAE putting ATARS onto the Hawk, “the world’s flying classroom.” The company is in the process of manufacturing updated versions of the aircraft for its global customers, Walton explained. “The modern battlespace is becoming increasingly complex and contested, and integrating technology such as Red 6’s augmented reality with the Hawk aircraft is key as we prepare pilots for life in a fast jet cockpit for decades to come,” Walton said.īAE has employed augmented reality for more than 60 years, according to the company, with its Buccaneer heads-up display-the world’s first-developed in 1958, as well as the suite of Striker Helmet-Mounted Display Systems used in the BAE/Airbus/Leonardo Typhoon and the BAE/Saab Gripen aircraft. London-based BAE Systems announced yesterday signing a memorandum of agreement with Orlando-based augmented reality company Red 6 to “explore the integration” of Red 6’s Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS) with BAE’s Hawk military jet aircraft trainer, said Lucy Walton, head of training, Air Sector, BAE Systems.
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