BAE Systems Awarded $8.3 Million SCEPTER Contract to Develop Machine-Generated Strategy System

BAE Systems has been awarded an $8.3 million contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a machine-generated strategy system for operational planning. The Strategic Chaos Engine for Planning, Tactics, Experimentation, and Resiliency (SCEPTER) program is designed to create strategies that can be evaluated within trusted simulation environments with thorough human review.

The SCEPTER system will be developed by BAE Systems’ FAST Labs research and development organization. The team will collaborate with Professor Igor Mezic and AIMdyn, a small woman-owned business, and with Professor Joao Hespanha, an expert in control and multi-agent systems. The program is planned as a two-phase, three-year planning program.

“Successful planning is about developing trusted, resilient operational plans for complex decision spaces,” said Marco Pravia, chief scientist at BAE Systems’ FAST Labs. “The SCEPTER system will push the in the production of machine-generated strategies.”

This project adds to BAE Systems’ extensive autonomy portfolio, which includes previous work combining games and simulations and a 20-year history of developing autonomy technology.

Anna Davis

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