ROME, N.Y. (AFRL) – The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will host the second iteration of the Airlift Challenge competition on October 30, 2023, through February 19, 2024. To identify new solutions, AFRL is inviting international researchers and university students to register to apply their skills and develop unprecedented new algorithms that achieve on-time deliveries while improving efficiencies.
The online event, which is open to the public through challenge.gov, seeks to advance state-of-the-art planning algorithms for executing airlift operations. The Challenge winners will be presented in June 2024 at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The first Airlift Challenge was held online from January 23 through February 27, 2023. There were two winners, and the results were presented at the International Society for Optics and Photonics, or SPIE. A paper was also published, with writeups from each winner on the SPIE website.