Artificial Intelligence Basic Research Directions at the U.S. Air Force

This survey gives a review of recent artificial intelligence-related research directions that are considered priority areas by the U.S. Air Force and targeted for basic research funding by Air Force Office of Scientific Research. These research areas include space situational awareness, autonomous systems, sensing and information fusion, surveillance, navigation, robust decision making, human-computer interfaces, and computational and machine intelligence. The possible contributions of artificial intelligence to these topics will be described and illustrated whenever possible by recently awarded grants.