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In contrast, the Capon method performs DBF adaptively in response to the changing environment by computing the beamforming weights from the received signals at multiple channels. However, it becomes computationally expensive as the number of receivers grows. This paper presents computationally efficient adaptive beamforming with an application of convolutional neural networks, named ABCNN. ABCNN is trained with the phase and amplitude of complex-valued time-series IQ signals and the Capon beamforming weights as input and output. ABCNN is tested and evaluated using simulated time-series data from both point targets and weather scatterers for a planar of fully digital PAR architecture. The preliminary results show that ABCNN lowers computation time by a factor of three, compared to the Capon method, for a phased array antenna with 1024 elements, while mitigating the contamination from sidelobes by placing nulls at the location of the clutter. 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