Air Force testers are developing a first-of-its-kind, systematic approach to guide experimentation with artificial intelligence and autonomous airborne vehicles and fill a need within the defense community for a set of principles for officials evaluating these new technologies. Disciplined testing standards are needed as the service pursues next-generation weapons -- like the Skyborg program that is building an AI-enabled, autonomous drone and serves as the Air Force’s flagship effort to enable manned-unmanned teaming for future operations in highly contested environments...