Trend: Autonomy & AI

Army To Test And Evaluate Elroy Air’s Hybrid-Electric VTOL Under New Contract

The Army in August awarded a $46.1 million contract to Elroy Air to test and experiment with the company’s Chaparral autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for heavy […]

PDW Eyes Supplying Parts To Support U.S. Production Of One Million Drones Annually

Performance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to supercharge its capacity and capabilities for making key drone components, expects to support domestic […]

Anduril, Archer Developing Collaborative, Autonomous Tiltrotor Aircraft To Enable Maneuver Warfare

Anduril Industries and Archer Aviation are developing a large hybrid-electric armed reconnaissance tiltrotor aircraft with the speed, range and payload capacity of the Army’s future long-range assault tiltrotor and current attack helicopter—serving as […]

Video Q&A: New Drone Tech, Explained by a Top Expert

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Editor’s Note: This week, John Persinos conducted a video interview with James McDanolds, Director of Uncrewed Technology Programs at the Sonoran Desert […]

Expert Interview: AI, AAM, eVTOL…and More

Global Avionics Round-Up from Aircraft Value News (AVN) Editor’s Note: This week, John Persinos interviewed Rick Adams, a leading aerospace expert specializing in the areas of training, simulation, artificial intelligence, […]

AI in Aviation Faces Rising Stakes

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Mentioning the Pope and Elon Musk in the same sentence seems like the start of a bad joke, the kind that begins […]

Marines Tap Sikorsky, Robinson’s Unmanned R66 For Medium Resupply Drone Development Effort

The Marine Corps has selected Sikorsky and Robinson Helicopter’s R66 Turbinetruck for the second increment of the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle–Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) development program, the companies said on April 27. Sikorsky […]

Next-Generation Avionics: Glass Cockpits, AI Assistance, and the New Value Premium

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) If connectivity is transforming aircraft into data platforms, then avionics are transforming them into intelligent systems. Next-generation avionics are now one of […]

Air Combat Command’s EOU Tests Anduril’s YFQ-44A

Last week, the Air Force’s Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) at Nellis AFB, Nev., tested an Anduril Industries YFQ-44A Fury prototype Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), which flew from a company site in southern […]

Army’s Work With H-60Mx Black Hawk To Inform Bringing Autonomy To MV-75 FLRAA

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Army and Sikorsky officials said April 16 the service’s new Black Hawk outfitted to fly autonomously is serving as a testbed for bringing autonomy capability to the future MV-75 […]