{"id":124547,"date":"2021-07-02T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/skyborg-ai-computer-brain-successfully-flew-a-general-atomics-avenger-drone"},"modified":"2021-07-02T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:22:43","slug":"skyborg-ai-computer-brain-successfully-flew-a-general-atomics-avenger-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/skyborg-ai-computer-brain-successfully-flew-a-general-atomics-avenger-drone","title":{"rendered":"Skyborg AI Computer \u201cBrain\u201d Successfully Flew A General Atomics Avenger Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtUxfFaYAPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the program was first revealed in 2019, the Air Force\u2019s then-Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Will Roper stated he wanted to see operational demonstrations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/27067\/usaf-plans-for-its-skyborg-ai-computer-brain-to-be-flying-drones-in-the-next-two-years\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">within two years<\/a>. The latest test flight of the Skyborg-equipped Avenger shows the service has clearly hit that benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>The General Atomics Avenger was used in experiments with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/37973\/general-atomics-avenger-drone-flew-an-autonomous-air-to-air-mission-using-an-ai-brain\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another autonomy system<\/a> in 2020, developed as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA) Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program that sought to develop drones that could demonstrate \u201ccollaborative autonomy,\u201d or the ability to work cooperatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the program was first revealed in 2019, the Air Force\u2019s then-Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Will Roper stated he wanted to see operational demonstrations within two years. The latest test flight of the Skyborg-equipped Avenger shows the service has clearly hit that benchmark. The General Atomics Avenger was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}