Lockheed Martin Tests Combat AI Agents in Simulated Fight Club

The defense contractor says its synthetic environment ran virtual 4-on-4 air combat scenarios with Ansys Government Initiatives and ATG, compressing what it called 114 years of testing into one month.

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Defense AI is moving from demos to evaluation. Lockheed's AI Fight Club shows how primes are trying to control the testing layer, where procurement credibility is won or lost.

Illustration of Lockheed Martin running virtual 4-on-4 air combat with Ansys Government Initiatives and ATG, showing fighter jets in a digital dogfight.

Lockheed Martin describes AI Fight Club as a proving ground for defense AI systems, not just a demo venue. The Bethesda defense contractor said the Lockheed Martin AI Center hosted the inaugural event to test AI capabilities for joint all-domain operations inside a synthetic environment built to approximate military decision-making under pressure.…

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