AFRL seeks proposals to stand up autonomy research consortium

The Air Force Research Laboratory on May 29 requested proposals to launch a "state-of-the-art, end-to-end, sustainable collaborative research consortium" for aerospace autonomy, which would receive $195 million through fiscal year 2022.

Inside Defense previously reported traditional contractors and start-ups can work together on projects for machine learning, data fusion, machine perception and vision, software assurance, planning, course-of-action generators and more.

The Autonomy Collaboration Research Network must sustain itself without federal funds within two years.