The Air Force wants to make headway on developing an autonomous fighter jet in an 18-month program spearheaded by a new rapid development team, Inside Defense has learned. In a recent interview, Steve Rogers, who runs the Air Force Research Laboratory's Autonomy Capability Team 3, described the effort to develop an unmanned, artificially intelligent fighter aircraft as "the big moonshot." "Our human pilots, the really good ones, have a couple thousand hours of experience," Rogers said May 7. "What happens...
