An effort to outfit the Air Force's large remotely piloted aircraft with autonomous sense-and-avoid software will rely on agile development and could use rapid-acquisition authorities offered by Congress. The service recently finished an analysis of alternatives for pursuing an airborne sense-and-avoid capability, according to an Oct. 18 description of the Common Airborne Sense-and-Avoid system program office's requirements for the prototyping initiative. Officials found that using a capability development document tailored to software-intensive information systems, which would require incremental updates, works...
