DARPA’s AIR Program: Advancing AI-Driven Tactical Autonomy for Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Air Combat

DARPA has been at the forefront of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for air combat, beginning with its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which focused on assisting pilots in dogfighting by automating low-level maneuvering tasks. Building on that foundation, DARPA has now launched the Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program, a more advanced initiative aimed at developing…