AI development requires high fidelity testing environments to effectively transition from the laboratory to operations. The flexibility offered by cyber arenas presents a novel opportunity to test new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities with users. Cyber arenas are designed to expose end-users to real-world situations and must rapidly incorporate evolving capabilities to meet their core objectives. To explore this concept the MIT/IEEE/Amazon Graph Challenge Anonymized Network Sensor was deployed in a cyber arena during a National Guard exercise.
@article{arxiv.2509.08200,
title = {Accelerating AI Development with Cyber Arenas},
author = {William Cashman and Chasen Milner and Michael Houle and Michael Jones and Hayden Jananthan and Jeremy Kepner and Peter Michaleas and Alex Pentland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08200},
year = {2025}
}