The 2025 series of the Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming marked a significant step forward in the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into battle management operations. Through a series of groundbreaking experiments, including the recent DASH 3 iteration, the U.S. Air Force, alongside its coalition partners, Canada and the United Kingdom, tested and refined AI’s potential to enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen interoperability in the face of growing global security challenges.
Held at the unclassified location of the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis in downtown Las Vegas, DASH 3 set the stage for this collaboration, led by the Advanced Battle Management...
01.05.2026 | LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, US |
Story by Debora Henley
Exercise Virtual Flag: Coalition is the U.S. Air Force's premier distributed battle management exercise, providing combat-representative, joint, and coalition synthetic training across all domains in support of the warfighter. VFC 26-1 integrated U.S. forces (U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Utah National Guard, and U.S. Marine Corps) with international partners (Royal Air Force, U.K. Space Command, Royal Australian...
