Trend: Autonomy & AI

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 […]

3 Aerospace Research and Development Projects Happening at Universities in the US

Some of the aerospace industry’s most advanced groundbreaking future technologies and concepts are being researched and developed within academic labs and campuses at hundreds of universities in the U.S. right […]

Searching for Markets in Autonomous Cargo Delivery

There is broad industry agreement that cargo applications of unmanned vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (and drones) will reach market at scale before passenger transport, but companies in the space […]

Testing Begins for Condor Pod to Enable AI-Powered MQ-9 Reaper Targeting

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Agile Condor wide area surveillance pod is to undergo classified testing over the next year after a recent flight on the General Atomics […]

Autonomous ISR Assets Likely A Big Defense Growth Area

Autonomous intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets that employ edge computing capabilities look to be a significant growth area for defense aerospace companies. “Business case-wise, what we’re seeing, our biggest […]

Pentagon Building Foundation for Al-Enabled Unmanned Systems in Future Conflicts

The U.S. military may in the next decade develop a concept of operations to employ artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled drones as a first wave in future conflicts, in order to […]