Improving the Digital Aviation Readiness Technology Engine (DARTE) with Temporal Pattern Attention Mechanisms and Hyper-Deep Ensembles

Abstract

The Digital Aviation Readiness Technology Engine (DARTE) provides unprecedented predictive readiness capabilities for the Naval FA-18 fleet. DARTE focuses on discovering actionable insights in relation to predicting two key readiness metrics: the number of mission capable (MC) aircraft and flight hours. Recent DARTE efforts have focused on improvements including the adoption of cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning techniques such as temporal pattern attention mechanism-enhanced long short-term memory (LSTMA) networks, hyper-deep ensembles for enhanced performance, and improved uncertainty estimation and robustness. Hyper-deep ensembles and attention mechanisms have been shown to provide state-of-the art results in industry and academia. Furthermore, their improved uncertainty estimation provides decision makers with an increased level of confidence that allows for better, smarter decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1158586

Entities

People

  • Andrew B. Sabater
  • Benjamin A. Michlin
  • Dean Lee
  • Gary R. Williams
  • Jamal T. Rorie
  • Josh A. Duclos

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Data Analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Neural Networks
  • Recurrent Neural Networks
  • Test Sets
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks