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Skyborg

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Kratos Defense; Security Solutions, Inc., completed the successful fourth flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle, at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, on Jan. 23, 2020. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Air Force can now deploy drones from other drones

The Air Force Research Lab successfully launched a small unmanned system from a larger drone mid-flight, the lab said.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Kratos Defense; Security Solutions, Inc., completed the successful fourth flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle, at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, on Jan. 23, 2020. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Air Force adds more tech companies to Skyborg program

Skyborg now has 13 vendors competing for slices of a $400 million contract to build out a network of autonomous drones to follow piloted planes.
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — United States Air Force Academy Cadets in the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Operations Program conduct various mock scenarios, Tuesday March 5th, 2019, in the Air Operations Center’s “Reaper Room” using a MQ-9 flight simulator allowing one operator to control multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which can autonomously search, find, identify, and track various targets worldwide. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joshua Armstrong)

With Air Force’s Skyborg, autonomous drones could be coming soon

Skyborg will be an "autonomous unmanned air combat vehicle system" with open artificial intelligence software architecture and modular hardware.
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