DARPA, Army working on automated flight program

By Maximilian Kwiatkowski / October 30, 2018 at 3:04 PM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working closely with the Army on a program to partially automate aircraft and has planned a demonstration in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter next year, according to the project's program manager. On Monday, Graham Drozeski of DARPA told reporters his agency and Sikorsky recently tested a removable kit, called the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, in a military setting at Ft. Eustis, VA. They enlisted the help of an Army pilot for the...

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