The Air Force's Imperative for Accelerated AI Adoption: MSBAI's GURU Delivers Autonomous Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics Capabilities

MSBAI's cognitive assistant, GURU, is an autonomous system that can perform expert-level engineering workflows, including rapid modeling, simulation, analysis, visualization, and virtual world-building. Awarded an AFWERX Phase 2 SBIR contract, titled “GURU Owns the Modeling and Simulation Tech Stack” under the 2021 Air Force 'Digital Engineering Pitch Day' initiative, MSBAI has delivered a groundbreaking autonomous solution that can set up Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for high-speed aircraft in a matter of minutes - a process that traditionally takes hours to complete. This transformative capability, embodied in MSBAI's GURU platform, responds to the U.S. Department of Defense's imperative to accelerate AI adoption, as recently outlined by Dr. William W. Streilein, Chief Technology Officer for DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).

Ensuring the system performs expert work reliably, following best practices, requires a hierarchical planning structure, including: Reinforcement Learning of skills and rewarding successful adaptation to a new request, graph networks to navigate multidimensional data and interfaces, transformer networks for interpreting user requests, learning from heterogeneous data (text, images, video) and synthesizing new language based commands, and world models for encoding dynamics and improving generalizability – acting as a simulation of the high dimension space environment. Skills are added to GURU in a modular form by training agents, and the Learning Engine is the ‘factory’ that builds and trains them. The agents are designed to operate within a shared communication ecosystem, utilizing a dual communication strategy: an opportunistic blackboard architecture for asynchronous information sharing, and deterministic peer-to-peer channels for structured interactions.

With GURU operational at the AFRL DoD Supercomputing Resource Center, this successful SBIR contract represents a critical milestone in the Air Force's efforts to revolutionize its digital engineering capabilities. The successful completion of this contract not only accelerates the U.S. Department of Defense's imperative to adopt AI, but also supports American high-speed aircraft designers in their quest for air superiority.

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Grosvenor, Allan
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Microsurgeonbot Inc. (dba MSBAI)

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