Air Force takes next steps toward modularity for legacy aircraft

By Rachel Cohen / November 3, 2017 at 10:52 AM
The Air Force plans to pursue a program of record in its fiscal year 2021 budget request for its AgilePod, a system that allows an aircraft to quickly add and change out sensors for different missions, a service spokesman said this week. Air Force Research Laboratory spokesman Bryan Ripple said in Oct. 24 and 26 emails the service could field the AgilePod on a variety of aircraft including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and non-ISR platforms. AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate...

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