The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a new program called the Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) to create a model AI red team for evaluating AI-enabled battlefield systems.

The SABER program aims to develop an AI red team with the technical expertise and counter-AI tools necessary to assess AI-enabled autonomous aerial and ground systems expected to be deployed within the next one to three years.

“SABER will build an exemplary AI red team that can continuously integrate and employ emerging counter-AI techniques and tools, establishing a sustainable model for an evergreen operational AI red teaming process. Our AI red team will be operationally assessing AI-enabled autonomous ground and air systems that could be deployed in the next 1-3 years,” DARPA said in a sam.gov posting.

As a result, the agency seeks experts to help survey, evaluate, select, develop, and implement cutting-edge techniques and tools across various domains—including physical (manufacturing/materials), adversarial AI (digital), cyber, and electronic warfare—to facilitate the operational assessment of AI-enabled system development and deployment pipelines.