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Lockheed Debuts AI on F-35 Fighter Jet to Identify Targets
Lockheed Martin's Project Overwatch autonomously identified unknown emitters onboard the F-35, reducing pilot decision time and enabling rapid AI updates between missions.
- On Monday, Lockheed Martin flight-tested Project Overwatch on an F-35 Lightning at Nellis Air Force Base, with the company saying it independently suggested a combat target on the pilot's display.
- Using company-funded IRAD, Lockheed Martin developed Project Overwatch following the April 2025 U.S. Air Force doctrine on AI integration across the service.
- The AI model was compact enough to run on the onboard computers, resolving emitter ID ambiguities and allowing engineers to retrain the model within minutes for the next mission-planning cycle, Lockheed said.
- The U.S. Air Force cautions that AI should augment Airmen because of risks like adversary deception and spoofing, despite potential for faster ISR, the Georgetown report notes.
- In military terms, 'emitters' refers to radio-frequency emissions, and Lockheed is pitching Overwatch as a system that could integrate with the Air Force's Mission Data File pipeline via the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing.
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Lockheed Martin successfully tested the ability of its F-35 fighter plane to use artificial intelligence-enhanced targeting in flight, the U.S. defense giant announced Monday.The test, dubbed Project Overwatch, was conducted at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. It incorporated an AI machine learning model in to the warplane’s information control system.The AI model generated data based on the plane’s surroundings and analyzed the information to p…
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The F-35 has been tested with a new artificial intelligence-enhanced Combat Identification capability to help pilots quickly identify unknown emitters detected by its sensors. Lockheed Martin has announced that it has tested a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced Combat Identification (Combat ID) capability on the F-35 Lightning II. The test marks the first time AI has […]
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