b'Partner News Summer 2023 33Corporatescience that focuses on the use of data and algorithms to imitate the way that humans can learn and adapt.Jonathan said: We want to see how you far you can go with Machine Learning and AI in the Combat Air environment. What is the next step we can take in this field where the artificial intelligence can coordinate the gathering and handling of information by the sensors that act as the nervous system of the jet? We dont just need it to process that data, we need the AI to go through a process of machine learning where it will offer the best solutions, better than a top co-pilot possibly could.Applications are being sought from SMEs, Start-ups and academia and winners could receive sixth months of funding for pilot projects, which could transform into long-Former pilot wantsterm collaborations with Leonardo. The competition provides an opportunity for Leonardo to identify AI capabilities of the future that could be introduced into the future fighters to breakcombat air sector, defying the laws of what has been possible in the past in flight. In particular, winners could have the chance AI laws of gravity to contribute to Leonardos input to the UKs most prestigious international fighter programme GCAP, the Global Combat Air Programme, which is a mission to create a new fighter jet for the UK, Italy and Japan by 2035. Jonathan believes that the winning entry Imagine the scene - you are sitting in a sixthwill have to be able to juggle high volumes generation fighter jet flying across unfamiliarof complex data, so the pilot doesnt have terrain, it is pitch black and you need toto. He said: Competition entrants need to make a decision in the next 5 seconds.challenge the AI to learn the best methods How can you draw on technology thatJonathan Smithto deal with a number of different scenarios. pictured during his ensures you make the right choice? time as an RAF PilotWe want the pilots of the future to benefit with the RAF F35Bfrom all the hard work that will go into this That is the question that former RAF FighterLightning Squadron. AI Challenge. Thats the dream of AI, to start Pilot, Jonathan Smith, VP Capability, CTO,a new golden age of machine intelligence Future Combat Air (GCAP), Electronicsthat elevates the pilot to new heights.Division, Leonardo UK, wants to pose to an AI star of the future in a Combat AirThe Combat Air AI Challenge is a joint Artificial Intelligence Challenge competitionendeavour with the Ministry of Defence being launched by the company this week,(MOD) Defence Science and Technology in collaboration with the UK MoD.Laboratory (Dstl) and is closely related to Leonardo UKs work within GCAP, which is Jonathan is well placed to make the call toto develop and deploy Integrated Sensing action, having flown some of the worldsAnd Non-Kinetic Effects (ISANKE) and most advanced fighter jets from the UKIntegrated Communication Systems (ICS). and US and worked with pilots across the globe. He wants to see artificial intelligenceTo find out more about the competition, and machine learning integrated into futurevisit: https://uk.leonardo.com/en/news-capability. Machine learning is a branchand-stories-detail/-/detail/combat-air-ai-of artificial intelligence (AI) and computerchallenge'