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Lockheed Martin¡¯s AI Fight Club? is a head-to-head competitive environment that accelerates how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed to support warfighters in their missions.
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What happens when every decision matters ¨C down to the nanosecond? Warfighters need the best-of-the-best proven AI systems to support their missions.
Entering the ring: AI Fight Club?. Our head-to-head style competitive environment is designed to accelerate the development and operational deployment of artificial intelligence and bring warfighters faster decision-making and secure data analysis. As a comprehensive testing ground, AI Fight Club simulates how AI systems perform across all domains ¨C air, land, sea and space ¨C to test models that meet Department of Defense (DOD) qualifications.
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A Proving Ground for the Best AI in the Nation?
AI Fight Club? uses the synthetic environment developed by Lockheed Martin that simulates realistic scenarios across all domains. This gives companies and teams of all sizes the opportunity to test their AI models in simulations that meet Department of Defense (DOD) qualifications. Winning AI models will meet exacting DOD standards that are an integral part of the AI Fight Club? proving ground, demonstrating the feasibility of leveraging the models in future U.S. defense work.??
Ultimately, events will bring together industry, academic and government experts to collaborate in a unique environment that fosters innovation, identifies vulnerabilities and informs the development of more advanced AI systems to benefit national security.??
How it Works
- Teams of experts from industry and academia will compete against each other in a head-to-head bracket.?
- Government representatives and spectators will engage with the competitors as they demonstrate their capabilities.??
- Organizers will select a set of scenarios for each match that reflects realistic and complex military operations for the competitions, such as:??
- Coastal defense against amphibious assault??
- Airborne operations in a contested environment??
- Layered Homeland Defense??
- Space-based surveillance and reconnaissance?
- Teams will integrate their systems, which will then be evaluated in head-to-head competitions on their performance in each scenario.?
- The winning team will receive the championship title and recognition as the top performer in the AI Fight ClubTM competition.?
Top teams will have the opportunity to publish and present their research and results, showcasing their innovations and advancements in AI.
Want in?
Lockheed Martin is actively developing the virtual arena that will host the first AI Fight Club?. We plan to complete the simulation environment in the third quarter of 2025 in anticipation of a first AI Fight Club? competition in the fourth quarter.??
We are announcing AI Fight Club? now to give interested teams time to refine their AI models and bring their best as they take on challengers.???
Teams interested in competing can submit a request here or email ai.fight.club.lm@lmco.com for more information.?
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is AI Fight ClubTM?
A competitive environment designed to accelerate the development and operational deployment of artificial intelligence to support warfighters in their missions.
Our goal is to bring together teams from across the industry and government experts to collaborate in a unique environment that fosters innovation, identifies vulnerabilities, and informs the development of more advanced AI systems to benefit American national security as a whole.??
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Q: How does AI Fight ClubTM work??
- Registration and Team Formation:?Participants and industry partners would register and form respective teams. Each team would consist of experts in AI development, military operations, and domain-specific knowledge.?
- Scenario Selection:?The tournament organizers would select a set of scenarios that reflect realistic and complex military operations, such as:??
- Airborne operations in a contested environment?
- Layered Homeland Defense??
- Coastal defense against amphibious assault??
- Space-based surveillance and reconnaissance?
- AI Agent Submission:?Registered teams will be provided a participant guide that will contain information on the challenge scenario, scoring, evaluation criteria and interface requirements for the AI Fight ClubTM Arena.?
- Head-to-head Matchups:?The teams would be paired in competition with each match up featuring two teams competing against each other.?
- Match Format:?Each challenge will focus on a specific military operation or mission area. The AI agents / capabilities will be evaluated on their performance in each scenario, with the team earning points based on predetermined, Operations Analysis informed evaluation metrics that will be shared with competitors prior to the tournament.?
Q: When will the first AI Fight Club? take place?
AIFC1 is targeted to be held in the 4th quarter of this year.
Q:?Who should participate in AI Fight Club???
We aim to use this competition to make all AI capabilities across industry more robust, reliable, and effective.
Standout AI will meet exacting DOD standards that are an integral part of the AI Fight Club? proving grounds, demonstrating the feasibility of capabilities for national security, as well as potential opportunities to partner with Lockheed Martin.
Teams will also have the opportunity to publish their results in accordance with the Participant Guide if they choose to.
Q: Will the outcomes of the fight clubs be made public?
AI Fight ClubTM aims to bring the best of American ingenuity together to ensure we maintain our global dominance in the era of AI. Specific details regarding external communications and public announcements will be defined by Lockheed Martin and the performing teams.?
Q: How will you know who won?
Criteria will be established in advance to evaluate the performance of AI systems in the AI Fight ClubTM, based on the specific scenarios and objectives of the competition.?
Q: How do I participate?
Teams interested in competing can?submit a request here?or email?ai.fight.club.lm@lmco.com?for more information.?