Defence Trailblazer is excited to announce the commencement of a second research project in partnership with CAE Australia and UNSW.
“The Defence Industry Development Strategy discussed the need for a new approach to innovation, and Defence Trailblazer really is trailblazing new techniques for Defence-industry-academic collaboration. This research project, the second with CAE, demonstrates how to foster better collaboration between industry and our academic institutions,” said Dr. Margaret Law, General Manager – Technology Development & Acceleration at Defence Trailblazer. “Our program pairs business development, project managers, chief investigators, and researchers to accelerate project design, governance, and security, ensuring defence needs are met with speed.”
CAE and UNSW will develop training methodology for operators of autonomous systems, addressing a critical gap in the training of personnel that are deployed in distributed mission and joint operations. The project will identify how to successfully learn to operate, command, and trust unmanned systems in a coalition environment, covering fundamentals of flight & payload operations, mission planning and rehearsal. The project will also deliver a training needs analysis that can be implemented in future training programs involving single or swarms of autonomous vehicles.
“We are excited to be collaborating on this CAE-Defence Trailblazer project. The Australian Department of Defence Robotics, Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence (RAS-AI) strategy emphasised the significance of Human Machine Teaming (HMT) for future operations,” shared Associate Professor Nadine Marcus, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney and Professor Hussein Abbass, School of Systems and Computing, UNSW Canberra. “Our goal is to produce a trusted training methodology for AI-Enabled HMT that can be adapted to different contexts, RAS-AI scenarios, human performance states, and user cognitive load levels.”
