Huntsville-based aerospace and defense company Aurex has announced new advancements in two artificial intelligence platforms designed to improve hypersonic weapons guidance and battlefield decision-making.
The company said enhancements to its GHOST-AI and CASTER-AI platforms come as demand grows for AI-enabled battle management, fire-control decision support, hypersonic technologies and mission planning across the defense industry.
GHOST-AI, short for Generalized Hypersonic Optimizer for Survivable Trajectories-AI, uses reinforcement learning to train AI agents to guide simulated hypersonic vehicles through a wide range of mission scenarios without requiring mission-specific pretraining.
According to Aurex, the technology is designed to improve guidance, navigation and control while helping optimize survivable flight trajectories in complex operational environments.
CASTER-AI, or Cognitive Assessment System for Tactical Engagement Response-AI, applies artificial intelligence to higher-level battlefield decisions, including tactical engagement response, strike package planning, dynamic resource-to-target pairing, pre-mission planning and fire-control decision support.
The platform incorporates GHOST-AI technology to connect simulated hypersonic vehicles, cruise missiles and other munitions with broader mission-level battle management.
“Aurex is using AI not only to discover solutions, but also to translate those insights into explainable, testable algorithms for future guidance, battle-management, and fire-control applications,” said Warren Kohm, CEO of Aurex. “We don’t wait until the need arises. Engineering the edge of possible means our team is constantly defining what’s next and designing solutions before they’re required.”
John Robertson, Aurex’s vice president of innovation and research, said increasingly complex battlefield environments require defense technologies that can process information and adapt more quickly.
“As real-world battle environments become increasingly complex, our capabilities and products must evolve to meet those challenges with greater speed, intelligence and adaptability,” Robertson said. “Aurex’s long-term vision is supported by technologies that help customers move faster, understand complex threats and missions, and develop next-generation defense capabilities.”
The company said the combined technologies allow customers to simulate missions in which CASTER-AI evaluates battlefield decisions while GHOST-AI guides simulated hypersonic vehicles, supporting applications in pre-mission planning, defensive system performance assessments and potential future real-time decision support.
Headquartered in Huntsville, Aurex develops aerospace and defense technologies focused on hypersonic systems, missile defense, hardened communications networks and space systems for defense and national security customers.
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