Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a mid-flight swap of autonomy software on its Talon IQ testbed aircraft, transitioning between software from two different companies while maintaining continuous operational performance.
The flight, conducted at Mojave, California, began with Northrop Grumman’s own Prism Mission Autonomy software controlling the aircraft before transitioning mid-flight to mission autonomy software from Applied Intuition and then Accelint, demonstrating what the company describes as the ability to dynamically switch between partner autonomy systems at the individual skill level during flight.
Craig Woolston, sector vice president and general manager for research and advanced design at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems, said the company had “opened the Talon IQ ecosystem to help companies prove their autonomous capabilities and advance next-generation flight, providing a real-world testing platform at a lower cost than fully uncrewed systems” and that the investment “speeds software maturity, enhances reliability and accelerates delivery of mission-ready solutions.”
Talon IQ is built around the Scaled Composites Model 437 aircraft and is designed as an open architecture, modular testbed that allows partner companies to develop, integrate and flight test mission autonomy software on proven flight autonomy hardware.
The system is intended to allow third-party autonomy skills to be hosted within Northrop Grumman’s Prism framework while adhering to US government reference architectures, with the company positioning it as a lower-risk and lower-cost route to proving autonomous software maturity before transition to operational platforms.
Imagine doing that on F35. Hopefully tempest will less software issues and uk + partners have software ownership.
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I think this is a great indicator of just how far software has advanced since the nineties/noughties origins of the F-35, with modularity now at the core rather than a massively complex singular structure that makes changing, upgrading and testing a hell of a job. Doesn’t mean things aren’t still complex and daunting at times but hopefully will make the whole process more predictable, timely and more inherently safe when upgrading. A different world certainly and should bode well for Tempest with considerations of those involved.
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