UnmannedUsing Artificial Intelligence to Counter Cybersecurity Threats for Drones Drones can now be equipped with cybersecurity powered by artificial intelligence (AI). SparkCognition and SkyGrid announced a new partnership to protect drones from zero-day attacks by installing an airspace management system that…
ATM ModernizationThales is Using AI to Augment Air Traffic Management EUROCONTROL projects a 53 percent increase in European flights by 2040 and an 84 percent in global flights. To help deal with the increased air traffic — despite an ongoing staffing shortage and…
CommercialThe Unmanned Future at Rockwell Collins' Advanced Technology Center Brian Wolford would sit awake as a child and listen to the planes fly into and out of the nearby Pewaukee Municipal Airport — since renamed Chicago Executive Airport. The noise might have…
CommercialIBM Wants AI to Close the Decision-Making Loop The way IBM sees it, artificial intelligence (AI) can help expedite the OODA loop — the decision-making cycle of observe, orient, decide and act theorized by U.S. Air Force Col. John Boyd.…
MilitaryF-35 AGCAS: Flying Itself out of Harm's Way “It takes three years to build a fighter jet; it takes 26 years to build a fighter pilot. I can give you the price of an F-35, but … You can't put…
MilitaryF-35 Data Fusion: How the Smartest Fighter Shares What it Sees The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II’s calling card is being a mobile sensor package that can the effectiveness of an entire fleet — an entire military front — by sharing data and…
MilitaryUS Air Force To Let AI Handle Software Certification The U.S. Air Force is readying an announcement it has completed a new initiative to automate the process of approving commercial software, as officials look to speed up the deployment of new…
ConnectivityDo Neural Networks Know the Way to Efficient Agriculture? Agronow is spearheading a new revolution it calls Agriculture 5.0, through which it aims to monitor crops by using artificial intelligence, making it possible for all sectors involved in agribusiness — banks, tradings,…
MilitaryDOD Considering Joint Office on Artificial Intelligence The U.S. Defense Department (DOD), which is trying to improve the military's artificial intelligence capabilities, is considering setting up a joint office focused on just that. “We would we concentrate all of DOD’s…
ProfilesMercury Systems Engineer Suggests Using AI to Certify AI David Simpson always dreamed of being a pilot. When he was a child in the U.K., his father was a member of the Royal Air Force, and he used to regale the…