US Air Force Eyes Air-to-Air Combat Technologies for its Next-Gen UAVs Written 9 March 2021
XQ-58A Valkyrie Demonstrator. | Credit: U.S. Air Force
FlightGlobal reports that the US Air Force is seeking air-to-air combat technologies for its family of next-generation UAVs. Initial focus areas are air domain awareness technologies, including “airborne moving target indication sensors and equipment for high-value airborne asset protection, it says in a request for information posted online on 8 March.” The Space Force said that it seeks technologies that are developed with a “heavy focus on digital engineering, open-missions systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, on-board edge processing, and autonomy.”
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