Inaugural AUKUS trials see focus shifted from nuke subs to AI drone swarms
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The UK hosted the first ever AUKUS artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy trial in April at Upavon in Wiltshire. The exercise involved collaboratively swarming the different AI platforms to detect and track military targets in real time in a representative environment.
This is according to a statement released by the Government of the UK on Friday.
“This trial demonstrates the military advantage of AUKUS advanced capabilities, as we work in coalition to identify, track and counter potential adversaries from a greater distance and with greater speed. Service personnel, scientists and engineers from our three nations combined to develop and share critical information to enhance commanders’ decision making,” said UK Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Military Capability, Lieutenant General Rob Magowan.
“Accelerating technological advances will deliver the operational advantages necessary to defeat current and future threats across the battlespace. We are committed to collaborating with partners to ensure that we achieve this while also promoting the responsible development and deployment of AI.”
Autonomy and AI will forever change the way Defence operates. By sharing AI - and the underpinning data to enable it - with one another, Australia, UK, and US militaries can access the best AI, reduce duplication of effort, and ensure interoperability.
AI algorithms working in a mission-tailored adaptive capability
“The AUKUS AI and Autonomy trial in Salisbury Plains demonstrated AI algorithms working in a mission-tailored adaptive capability. The AUKUS research and operator teams collaborated to develop, test and evaluate joint machine-learning models, and operate our different national platforms on the battlefield,” said in the statement Australian Deputy Secretary, Strategy, Policy and Industry, Hugh Jeffrey.
“I was impressed to see AI models rapidly updated at the tactical edge to incorporate new targets, which were immediately shared among the three partners to deliver decision advantage and meet changing mission requirements. This cooperation under AUKUS Pillar II will deliver a capability greater than any one country could achieve alone, and this really is the rationale for the AUKUS partnership at work.”
More than 70 military and civilian defence personnel and industry contractors were involved in the exercise producing trilateral teams that collaborated to develop joint machine-learning (ML) models, apply test and evaluation processes, and fly on different national UAVs.
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