USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA Announce Breakthrough in Aerospace Machine Learning

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X-62A VISTA aircraft
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency were finalists for the 2023 Robert J. Collier Trophy, a formal acknowledgment of recent breakthroughs that have launched the machine-learning era within the aerospace industry. The teams worked together to test breakthrough executions in artificial intelligence algorithms using the X-62A VISTA aircraft as part of DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program (photo by Kyle Brasier).

May 21, 2024 | Originally published by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on April 17, 2024

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) were finalists for the 2023 Robert J. Collier Trophy, a formal acknowledgment of recent breakthroughs that have launched the machine-learning era within the aerospace industry.

The teams worked together to test breakthrough executions in artificial intelligence algorithms using the X-62A VISTA aircraft as part of DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program.

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