This research is about teaching a team of AI pilots how to defend airspace against incoming threats, and letting the number of AI agents grow or shrink as the battle changes. Think of it as a smart, flexible video‑game squad that learns by playing millions of simulated battles and automatically adjusts how many defenders to deploy and how they coordinate.
Defensive counter‑air missions today rely heavily on pre‑planned tactics and human operators who can be overloaded when many threats appear at once. This work aims to automate and optimize defensive air operations in highly dynamic environments—deciding how many defending units to allocate, when and where to deploy them, and how they should coordinate—so that defenses remain effective even as threat patterns and volumes change in real time.
If extended and productized, the moat would center on (1) proprietary high‑fidelity air combat simulators and scenario libraries, (2) tuned multi‑agent RL policies calibrated to real-world doctrine and sensor/weapon constraints, and (3) integration into existing C2 and mission-planning workflows within defense organizations.
Hybrid
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High (Custom Models/Infra)
Simulation cost and sample efficiency for multi-agent reinforcement learning at realistic air-combat fidelity; plus real-time inference and safety validation for deployment in live or hardware-in-the-loop environments.
Early Adopters
The work combines (1) dynamic scaling of the number of cooperating defender agents, and (2) game-augmented reinforcement learning specifically tuned for defensive counter‑air, rather than generic multi‑agent RL. This positions it closer to operational air combat decision support than generic RL benchmarks, with doctrine-aware training and a focus on large-scale, variable-force engagements.