Air Force Collaborative Pushes AI Frontiers — Fast

Breaking Defense: Air Force Research Lab  (AFRL) has pioneered a unique industry collaboration to speed solutions to the toughest AI technical challenges. Its most recent success is the just-finished DARPA AlphaDogfight contest.

The Autonomy Research Collaborative Network, or ARCNet, is a partnership between AFRL and an industry consortium managed by the non-profit SP Global Institute (SPGI). The consortium boasts some 140 members, Mark Pohl, ARCNet operations director for SPGI said in an interview today. About half of the members are small, non-traditional firms, he said, and the other half are established defense contractors.

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