AFRL floats $50M for cyber, autonomy advances in unmanned systems

By Rachel Cohen / November 28, 2016 at 7:10 AM
The Air Force Research Laboratory is offering companies nearly $50 million across five years to move unmanned aircraft closer to being capable of autonomy, waging cyber warfare and more, according to a Nov. 10 broad agency announcement on the Federal Business Opportunities website. AFRL wants white papers with ideas to improve the Defense Department's signals intelligence, electronic warfare and cyber operations capabilities in asymmetric combat and rapid prototyping. Those technology advances would serve the future needs of Air Forces Northern,...

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