Air Force enlists industry's help to mature UAV control technology

By Rachel Cohen / September 8, 2017 at 9:05 AM
Air Force Research Laboratory officials say they are launching a series of information transfer agreements so commercial industry can mature service-owned technology to control multiple unmanned aerial vehicles at once. Greg Feitshans, Vigilant Spirit Control Station software program director and chief engineer with AFRL's 711th Human Performance Wing, told Inside the Air Force in a Sept. 6 email the software has been vetted in "many hours" of simulations and flight tests "across numerous projects and aircraft types," mainly research and...

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