AI & Autonomy After FTUAS Cut, Army Looks To Field Brigade UAS In FY ‘26 To Replace Shadow Drones After cancelling the Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) program, the Army plans to begin procuring initial brigade-level unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities in fiscal year 2026…
AI & Autonomy Airbus Flight Tests Unmanned Helicopter With Shield AI’s Autonomy Pilot Airbus Group’s U.S. defense business recently conducted the first flight test of an unmanned H145 helicopter using an autonomy pilot software from Shield AI in…
AI & Autonomy Merlin to Integrate Its Mission Autonomy Software Onto Northrop Grumman M437 Boston-based Merlin said on July 30 that it is to integrate its Merlin Pilot autonomy software for Northrop Grumman‘s Beacon testbed project using the Scaled…
AI & Autonomy Cleared to Roll: How Autonomous Taxiing and Smart Avionics Are Shaping Aircraft Values Global Avionics Round-Up from Aircraft Value News (AVN) The aircraft of the future won’t just fly itself…it will taxi itself, too. Autonomous taxiing technology is…
AI & Autonomy HASC Wants USAF to Lay Out Plan for Full-Scale Production of CCA Increment 1 The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the U.S. Air Force to lay out its plan for full- scale production of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)…