Trend: Autonomy & AI

Future of Aerospace Startups Q&A with Starburst Aerospace CEO

The aerospace industry is not short on innovation, however, turning a small startup into a breakthrough company in an industry this large and diverse is challenging. Francois Chopard, CEO of […]

Pentagon Needs to Establish ‘Internet of Military Things,’ Air Force Acquisition Chief Says

Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said on Dec. 7 that a crisis will likely force the Pentagon to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and ways to involve commercial start-up innovators […]

How the UK Royal Navy is Researching the Use of Drones for Delivering Supplies and Data Transmissions

During the Littoral Response Group (Experimentation) (LRG(X)), the Royal Navy conducted over 40 different experiments during nine real-time exercises in Cyprus to develop the Future Navy and Future Commando Force […]

‘White Box’ Likely a Key in Future AI Aviation Use

While artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) is a priority for technologists seeking to advance military, civil and commercial aerospace, machines will not likely be running the air and space domains any […]

Daedalean Explains Path to Safety-Critical Certification for Artificial Intelligence in Avionics

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to be a black box for many in the aviation industry, Luuk van Dijk, founder and CEO of Daedalean, said […]

US Air Force Considering Possible Autonomous, Stealth Attributes for Future Tanker

The U.S. Air Force continues to study what attributes its future KC-Z tanker should have, as the service tries to resolve six Category 1 deficiencies on its Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers–design and […]

Palantir Forecasts Major Increase in Its Share of DoD, Other Federal Software Business

Denver-based Palantir Technologies, Inc. forecasts a major increase in the company’s share of DoD, intelligence community, and other federal software business, as the company seeks to become the “central operating system […]

Policy Discussions on Ethical and Responsible Use of Autonomous Weapons Likely

As the U.S. Army recruits the other military services to participate in next year’s Project Convergence exercise to showcase significantly contracted sensor-to-shooter timelines through artificial intelligence (AI), policy discussions on […]

DARPA to Re-Use Air-to-Air Combat Trial Algorithms for ISR, EW

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to re-use algorithms employed in the recent AlphaDogfightTrial (ADT) for research on artificial intelligence-enabled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); electronic warfare (EW); […]

NVIDIA CEO Shows Disruptive New Data Center Infrastructure-on-a-Chip Architecture

During the second GPU Technology Conference (GTC) of 2020 done from his kitchen, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Oct. 5 showed the future of the software-defined data center with all of […]