The Air Force Research Laboratory is beginning to chart a path toward unpiloted aerial refuelers and transport aircraft, Lt. Col. Jonathan Gilbert, AFWERX Prime division chief, said last week, creating potential future options the service can use to quickly automate its fleet. “When you start thinking of ways to better use the resources you have, one of them being people, automating an aircraft is going to make sense,” Gilbert told Inside Defense . AFWERX Prime, a subset of AFRL which...
