AUKUS and Partners Achieve Global First with AI Technology

Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, known as AUKUS partners, have made significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI) technology by performing the first-ever live retraining of autonomous systems used in drone surveillance technology. The AUKUS coalition announced that the joint AI technology development project had achieved several world-first breakthroughs, including the live retraining at the edge of models in flight and the interchange and use of AI models on AUKUS nations’ uncrewed aerial vehicles. During a trial in the UK, the installation of Australian, UK, and US joint AI-enabled assets created a collaborative swarm that detected and tracked military targets in real-time. Increasing the development of these technologies has the potential to make a significant impact on coalition military capability. The trilateral partners are striving to integrate these technologies into all three nations’ military capabilities as a means of decreasing their response time to threats.