Air Force fighter pilots will soon face new opponents in their training: artificial intelligence-based enemy pilots that can match humans based on their personal learning needs. After steering the production of numerous AI-enabled pilot agents for years, Aptima, Inc. confirmed it landed a four-year contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory to build an "automated librarian" that will categorize those AI pilots and pair them with military trainees in scenarios that are right to advance their skillsets. "The best case outcome is that AFRL determines that the products of this research are so promising that they create a library into which AI training technologies are shelved like books are shelved and they refine the sort of librarian that we're trying to build here so that it can sweep through that enormous library of AI, sweep through a library of scenarios--and for each individual student--pick out just the right pairing to advance them to expertise reliably and more quickly than we can do today," Aptima's Chief Scientist Jared Freeman told Nextgov during an interview on Tuesday. Freeman joined the company in 1999, four years after its launch. Aptima's project portfolio has grown increasingly diverse since then, he noted. Now, much of it concerns AI support for human teams, like forming and measuring them, and helping people and AI to manage those groups.