MQ-25 Air Vehicle Pilots Lt. Matt Pence (forward) and Lt. Steven Wilster conduct a test run to monitor the Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System ground control station, located at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., as the system commands the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-20 Avenger surrogate, located at the company’s test facility in California, in preparation for demonstration event in November 2024. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy tested command and control of an unmanned aircraft using its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) for the first time this week in a demo using the  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-20 Avenger and Lockheed Martin software.

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) said GA-ASI initiated this joint demonstration that on Nov. 5 had the Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office PMA-268 use its UMCS with the MD-5 Ground Control Station (GCS), loaded with the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works MDCX platform, command and control the GA MQ-20 Avenger.

GA said the MQ-20 technology demonstrator acted as a surrogate to demonstrate how the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) can command various unmanned aircraft with autonomous maneuvers. The Navy noted this proves the UMCS can command other aircraft beyond the under-development MQ-25 carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft.

Navy operators used an MD-5 Ground Control Station (GCS) out of the Navy’s Patuxent River, Md., test facility to command and control the MQ-20 flown out of GA-ASI’s Desert Horizon flight operations facility in El Mirage, Calif.

The team was able to operate over this large distance by using an unspecified proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) satellite constellation datalink. 

NAVAIR said it will use the data from this demonstration to refine program requirements and develop more key technologies. The team plans to conduct more digital and live surrogate test flights to demonstrate various aspects of CCAs including autonomy, mission systems, crewed-uncrewed teaming, advanced communications and more command and control development.

Lockheed Martin boasted its Skunk Works MDCX autonomy platform enabled the Navy air vehicle pilots to control the MQ-20 during its California flight.

NAVAIR describes the UMCS as a system-of-systems required for MQ-25 command and control that should apply to other Navy unmanned aircraft control in the future. 

GA underscored this was the first time any General Atomics UAS conducted bi-directional communications using the UMCS operation codes while also performing autonomous behavior, using the pLEO datalink.

“UMCS is laying a foundation that will enable control of all unmanned carrier aircraft, starting with the MQ-25 aircraft. The UMCS opens the door for efficiently introducing future unmanned systems into the complex carrier command and control architecture,” Capt. Daniel Fucito, PMA-268 program manager, said in a statement.

“This was a huge step for unmanned naval aviation. This demo showcased UMCS’s first live control of an unmanned air vehicle, and it was great to be part of history in the making. The team is paving the way for integrating critical unmanned capability across the joint force to combat the high-end threat our warfighters face today and in the future,” Lt. Steven Wilster, MQ-25 AVP, added.

General Atomics characterized this demonstration as part of the overall effort to move technology forward for the future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), for which the Navy and Air Force intend future manned fighters to command several unmanned wingmen to perform missions. 

The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are collaborating under a Tri-service Memorandum of Understanding for critical subsystems for CCAs, with the Navy leading development of a common control architecture and GCS, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin.

GA-ASI said the MQ-20 is being used “extensively” as a surrogate CCA testbed for autonomous technology development.

In April, the Air Force downselected to GA and Anduril for CCA testing, with them both set to move forward on detailed designs, manufacture and testing of production-representative test articles for the CCA program.

“This effort was a prime example of industry partners and government agencies working together to perform important new capabilities. The team efficiently and safely demonstrated aircraft flight control from another government agency’s control station. Using GA-ASI’s Tactical Autonomy Core Ecosystem (TacACE) software, the team not only executed airborne commands, but did so in a safe, controlled environment,” GA-ASI president David Alexander, said in a statement.

John Clark, vice president and general manager at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, said they are happy to collaborate with the Navy to help move toward its air wing of the future vision.

“The MDCX made it possible to rapidly integrate the MQ-20 ‘autonomy core’ with the UMCS, demonstrating common control capability and third-party platform integration,” Clark said in a statement.

A version of this story originally appeared in affiliate publication Defense Daily.

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The U.S. Air Force and Merlin Labs may begin autonomous KC-135 flight testing next year, the company said (Merlin Photo)

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year.

Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been testing the Merlin Pilot system to provide autonomy and automation for the KC-135 tanker to reduce aircrew and allow crew members to focus on critical mission tasks.

In February, Merlin said that it had signed a multi-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Air Mobility Command (AMC) and Air Force Materiel Command to develop and integrate the Merlin Pilot on the KC-135 to inform the Next Generation Air Refueling System and “pave the way for autonomous uncrewed operations of the KC-135–an unprecedented new capability for AMC and the USAF.”

Merlin said on Monday that its “airworthiness plan for the Merlin Pilot KC-135 testing has been accepted by the United States Air Force.”

“This joint USAF and Merlin project will evaluate the viability of scaling the Merlin Pilot to large transport aircraft, especially its innovative AI capabilities,” the company said. “Achieving this milestone demonstrates that Merlin’s system engineering processes are consistent with the airworthiness standards set by the USAF, and allows Merlin to progress towards aircraft integration, design completion, and testing operations.”

Air Force acceptance of the Merlin Pilot KC-135 airworthiness plan “is the first major milestone to be executed under this collaboration, and lays the groundwork for the Merlin Pilot’s certification basis and eventual Military Flight Release (MFR),” Merlin said. “Integrating the Merlin Pilot on the KC-135 kickstarts Merlin’s Part 25 airworthiness programs and is material to continued advancements on this class of aircraft. Merlin is targeting the end of 2024 for its design completion, with ground testing, flight testing, and demonstrations to occur in 2025.”

In June, the company said that it had received a $105 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to provide advanced automation for the Air Force C-130J airlifter by Lockheed Martin as a step toward such features for other special operations forces (SOF) fixed wing aircraft over the next five years.

Merlin said that it has had a two-year partnership with the Air Force and that this summer’s C-130J contract will provide advanced automation design and integration on the C-130J; ground testing; Test Readiness Review and flight test; full takeoff to landing demonstration; and integration on other SOF aircraft.

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Pictured is a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone (GA-ASI Photo)

General Atomics‘ Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) subsidiary and BAE Systems said that they are teaming to demonstrate autonomous electronic warfare (EW) systems that the companies believe could one day go on U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).

Scott Bailie, BAE Systems’ director of advanced electronic warfare solutions at BAE Systems, said in a joint company statement on Thursday that the companies are highlighting “the maturity of autonomous EW mission systems in support of U.S. Air Force objectives” and that the companies are merging “proven EW technology and secure command and control on a rapid timeline in a small form factor well-suited for CCAs.”

The first CCAs are to be air-to-air, but others may be those for intelligence or jamming missions. The Air Force has said that it plans to field 150 CCAs in the next five years to complement F-35s and possibly other manned fighters.

General Atomics and BAE Systems said that they recently demonstrated “unique” EW features through a “secure, jam-resistant Link 16” network provided by BAE Systems, on a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger jet drone–“used extensively” for autonomous drone/CCA development.

“The demonstration helps accelerate emerging networked electronic attack capabilities for U.S. Air Force Autonomous Collaborative Platforms,” the companies said. “The demonstration took place at GA-ASI’s Desert Horizon flight operations facility in El Mirage, California, and is part of an ongoing series of technology insertion and autonomous flights performed using internal research and development funding to prove important concepts.”

In April, the Air Force said that it had chosen privately-held drone makers, General Atomics and Anduril, for the first round of CCA.  General Atomics offered its Gambit design and Anduril its Fury.

The companies beat defense industry heavyweights Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, though these companies and others are free to bid on future CCA increments.

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Avionics supplier Honeywell on Monday announced the start of an investment and collaboration agreement with autonomy provider Near Earth Autonomy to bid on for autonomous rotorcraft.

Honeywell said the initial example of this agreement is their teaming with Leonardo Helicopters as a competitor in the Marine Corps Aerial Logistics Connector (ALC) prototype program. 

In July, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) selected Near Earth to lead this ALC team to offer advanced autonomy on the Leonardo AW139 helicopter. At the time, the company said this 20 month-long initiative aims to demonstrate solutions able to transport various kinds of cargo and for casualty evacuation in a contested environment in both crewed and uncrewed configurations.

NAVAIR’s prototype program specifically seeks to demonstrate rapid deployment of cargo up to 3,000 pounds over a 200 nautical mile radius, with the Marine Corps looking for aircraft to be operational by 2030. The prototype program uses an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA). 

Earlier this year, the Marine Corps first selected the unmanned version of Airbus’ UH-72 Lakota helicopter as a competitor in ALC. At the time, Airbus said with a contract agreement for Middle Tier Acquisition rapid prototyping with an OTA, the goal is to transition the prototype to fielding within five years.

The AW139 Near Earth-led ALC team is dividing the work into having Leonardo implement a fast-loading, security and unloading system for Joint Modular Intermodal Containers (JMIC) on its AW139; Honeywell currently provides the helicopter’s autopilot and will augment it for autonomous take-off and landing; and Near Earth will demonstrate a full integrated logistics system with onboard autonomy to guide the aircraft and modify flight trajectory to avoid hazards.

Near Earth will also demonstrate mission autonomy so “lightly trained” personnel can request, dispatch, monitor and retask supply deliveries.

“The ALC program is focused on achieving assured autonomy on an unprecedented scale. We are excited to partner with Honeywell, a leader in avionics and flight control, to create a comprehensive system for aerial logistics that can rapidly be put into commonplace use,” Sanjiv Singh, CEO of Near Earth, said in a statement.

Honeywell underscored the larger collaboration with Near Earth will allow them to jointly explore more opportunities for rotorcraft and unmanned aerial systems beyond the ALC Marine Corps initiative.

“Uncrewed aircraft are a vital means of keeping service men and women out of harm’s way in contested environments. But they must also be advanced enough to reliably and efficiently perform their missions, even in GPS-denied environments. Together with Near Earth, we’re seeking to advance the reliability and functionality of autonomous technology and build products that support autonomous operations globally,” Matt Milas, president for defense and space at Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, said in a statement.

Milas also noted they plan to focus on retrofitting existing platforms so that they will “be able to deliver rapid, scalable solutions.”

Honeywell said the agreement will support the company’s “portfolio alignment” to three megatrends, the future of aviation, automation, and energy transition.

This is the second autonomous partnership Honeywell unveiled this month. It recently announced a partnership with autonomous military aircraft software developer Merlin to focus on fixed-wing military aircraft.

A version of this story originally appeared in affiliate publication Defense Daily.

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The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program may be a fit for a five and a half pound BriteStorm stand-in jammer that Leonardo said that it is developing to allow the U.S. and allies to counter integrated air defense systems and fly deep behind enemy lines.

BriteStorm’s Miniature Techniques Generator, paired with Transmit Receive Modules and antennas, “will deliver world beating stand-in jamming capabilities, protecting friendly forces against early warning, surveillance, and target tracking radars,” Leonardo said. “BriteStorm can act as a decoy to stimulate enemy air defenses. BriteStorm can also produce obscuration and confusion techniques to deny the enemy from building up a complete air picture.”

In the United Kingdom, the Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office has bought and flown BriteStorm in trials, and Leonardo views DoD as a “key potential customer for BriteStorm,” the company said.

“The BriteStorm payload is designed to be installed on the widest possible range of UAVs and launched effects,” Leonardo said. “It will equip each platform with an advanced array of digital deception techniques, deployable at long range.”

“Depending on the situation, BriteStorm’s effects can range from barraging the enemy system with electronic noise to more sophisticated techniques such as creating dozens of realistic ‘ghost’ fighter jet signatures, confusing and misdirecting the enemy response,” the company said.

The Air Force has said that the first CCAs will be air-to-air but that other CCAs could tackle other missions, such as jamming and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of CCA–first flights that could result soon thereafter in the beginning of developmental test (DT) under the Air Force CCA Experimental Operations Unit at Nellis AFB, Nev.’s 53rd Wing.

The long pole in the tent for CCA is full autonomy for launch, mission completion, and recovery. DT could aid in ironing out any wrinkles in autonomy.

The Air Force has talked about 3 to 5 air-to-air CCAs under the control of a Lockheed Martin F-35 or manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter, but Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said last month that the conceptual number of CCAs per manned fighter is now higher, an indication perhaps of not only drones’ rising technological sophistication but of the possibility that the manned NGAD program may end or be significantly curtailed.

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Honeywell in May 2023 successfully completed the first flight of its Honeywell Anthem integrated flight deck using Honeywell’s Pilatus PC-12 test aircraft. (Photo: Honeywell)

Honeywell, a supplier of avionics systems, and Merlin, a small company developing software for autonomous military aviation, have partnered to bring more autonomy to military and commercial aircraft.

The initial focus of the partnership will be fixed-wing military aircraft, the companies said on Thursday. The companies will evaluate transport aircraft, tankers, and fixed-wing special mission aircraft, Honeywell said in a response to questions.

Merlin, based in Boston, has developed the Merlin Pilot AI software and is taking a crawl, walk, fly approach to integrating its product on military aircraft. The partnership with Honeywell adheres to this approach.

The companies said Merlin’s software will be integrated with Honeywell’s Anthem avionics suite to reduce pilot workload and enhance operational efficiency for special missions.

“By enabling single-pilot operations and automating key tasks, this partnership provides a scalable and safe solution to ease pilot workload and optimize fleet operations for both the military and commercial aviation industry,” Bob Buddecke, president, Electronic Solutions at Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, said in a statement.

Anthem is not currently used on military aircraft. The company began flight-testing with the integrated flight deck in 2023. The avionics product is the first cloud-connected cockpit system that can be customized for most aircraft, Honeywell says.

Honeywell said the memorandum of understanding with Merlin support the company’s alignment with megatrends in automating aviation.

Merlin’s AI pilot is being flight tested on a Cessna aircraft to prove out the technology. The software then will be integrated into Air Force C-130J and KC-135 aircraft for further development.

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Anduril’s Bolt-M small loitering munition. (Photo: Anduril Industries)

Maintaining a steady drumbeat of new product releases, Anduril Industries on Thursday unveiled its Bolt family of small, man-packable autonomous air vehicles that include surveillance and munition variants, which the Marine Corps is evaluating for its Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-Light) program.

Anduril’s commitment to artificial intelligence and autonomy is a key attribute of the new unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including waypoint navigation and manual control in GPS-denied environments. The goal is to simplify operations by lessening the amount of thinking required for, and training needed by, an operator.

Using the example of remotely guided UAS that are “changing the battlefield” in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War to strike targets, Chris Brose, Anduril’s chief growth officer, said these first person view drones require skilled pilots and additional manual support.

“But at the same time, there’s those limitations to scale in terms of expert pilots, other manpower, and really what we’re trying to do with Bolt is make autonomous many of those core functions from the standpoint of a man-packable, AI-enabled strike system that can be very quickly by a single operator, set up, launched,” Brose told reporters on Wednesday.

A user display, be that a tablet, laptop, tactical assault kit, or some other control station gives an operator battlespace awareness and known and unknown targets can be tracked and followed at extended range, and struck based on an operator command, he said. The quadcopter can engage from any angle of attack, allowing it to strike the most vulnerable part of a target, the company said.

In addition to surveilling and striking ground targets, Bolt can be used for counter-maritime and counter-air missions, Brose said, highlighting the lineage to Anduril’s original counter-UAS drone, Anvil, which is a small quadcopter UAS that slams into its target in mid-air.

Bolt, the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) variant, and Bolt-M, the munition carrier, are both lightweight, 12.1 pounds for the former, and between 13 and 15 pounds for the latter depending on the explosive payload, which can weigh up to 3 pounds. Some of the capabilities of the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAS include 45-plus minute and 40-plus minute flight times for the ISR and “M” variants, maximum ranges of over 12 miles, flight speeds of around 60 mph, and tool-less battery swapping.

Both variants include Anduril’s AI-based Lattice software system that enables autonomy, pre-flight and in-flight mission planning, and can be used in challenging and contested environments, day and night, Anduril said.

“It’s just now understood that sort of basic table stakes are the ability for those systems, autonomous aircraft, or other systems, to be able to operate in highly contested and often denied communications and electromagnetic spectrum environments,” Brose said of the lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.

Bolt includes a two-axis electro-optical/infrared gimbal seeker, and Bolt-M also features the same gimbal seeker, an optical proximity fuze, and an electronic safe and arm device with safe return to base functionality.

Bolt has been in development for years and Anduril is delivering Bolt-M for the Marine Corp’s OPF-L for testing and evaluation over the next six months. The Marines are also evaluating systems provided by AeroVironment—bidding the tube-launched Switchblade 300—and Teledyne’s Teledyne FLIR segment—offering the Rogue 1 VTOL small UAS—for the loitering munition program.

Anduril is eyeing potential opportunities with the Army for loitering munitions. Brose said the service is “doing an enormous amount of thinking and sort of revising how it thinks” about its requirements for different “sizes and classes” of the lethal unmanned systems. He sees Bolt having the chance to compete in the small loitering munition space, highlighting Anduril’s focus on AI, autonomy, speed, and warhead as differentiators.

Bolt-M is modular and is designed to carry Anduril and third-party warheads for anti-personnel and anti-material attack. The company highlighted that it designed munition payloads with specialized kinetic solutions developer Kraken Kinetics.

A version of this story originally appeared in affiliate publication Defense Daily.

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Northrop Grumman on Thursday announced it demonstrated the ability of a navigation system used by a MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle to operate at high latitudes within the Arctic Circle.

An MQ-4C named B8, the first production MQ-4C Triton upgraded to the IFC-4 configuration flies over California. It was delivered to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. on Feb. 1, 2022. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The company told sister publication Defense Daily this demonstration test flight used a company-owned manned aircraft with a mounted Triton navigation system. It started in Deadhorse, Alaska and flew within 100 miles of the North Pole. 

The navigation system included the mission management computer and upgraded operational flight programs to demonstrate the Triton’s ability to navigate that far north.

The aircraft collected data over a five-hour flight, remaining in U.S. and Canadian airspace.

The company said this demonstration also validated ground-based GPS alignment and initialization procedures to allow operations from runways above 70 degrees north latitude.

Northrop Grumman also told Defense Daily this demonstration validated the hardware and software capability that currently exists on the MQ-4C.

Northrop Grumman argued this delivers on its commitment to provide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities in the High North, operating in the austere environment of the Arctic Circle. 

The Triton itself is able to operate at altitudes over 50,000 feet for over 24 hours at a time. The company noted this means it can operate above harsh Arctic winds and avoid the speed and range impacts that limit performance at more medium altitudes in the 10,000-30,000 feet range.

This came after similar demonstrations over the Gulf of Alaska in summer 2023, including testing the Triton radar during the Northern Edge 2023 exercise.

The U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Air Force operate the MQ-4Cs.

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Global Avionics Round-Up from Aircraft Value News (AVN)

As AI systems enhance the operational performance of aircraft, demand for such planes is surging, driving up base values and lease rates.

The global avionics market is on track for major multiyear growth. What’s more, artificial intelligence (AI)-infused avionics upgrades already are influencing aircraft base values and lease rates.

According to new research released in September 2024 by Fortune Business Insights, the global avionics market size was valued at USD 91.32 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow from USD 99.33 billion in 2024 to USD 179.44 billion by 2032, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.67% during the forecast period. North America dominated the avionics market in 2023 with a market share of 37.25% (see chart).

The avionics market’s growth is driven by technological advancements, as well as increasing revenue opportunities in international routes. Moreover, the rising procurement of next-generation military aircraft, both for transport and combat operations, is further accelerating market expansion during the forecast period. Innovations in military aviation typically spill over into the civilian sector, making commercial and defense aerospace two sides of the same coin.

Many avionics advancements in commercial aircraft got their start through military research and development. Global military budgets are ballooning, fueled during the past two years by increasing superpower rivalry and the Russia-Ukraine war. The U.S. spends by far more on defense than any other country. Avionics capabilities are expanding in tandem with these expenditures.

The avionics market is divided into two primary categories: hardware and software. In 2023 and so far into 2024, hardware has maintained a leading market share due to its multitasking capabilities, such as trajectory prediction and route guidance. Many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have introduced new high-performance hardware solutions for both commercial and military aviation.

However, the software segment is projected to experience the highest CAGR in the coming years. This surge is driven by the increasing integration of software in avionics to enhance flight operations. Many OEMs are forming partnerships and joint ventures to develop the most advanced avionics software solutions.

The AI revolution… 

A megatrend reshaping avionics is the integration of AI. Avionics systems powered by AI are revolutionizing the way aircraft are flown, introducing unprecedented levels of automation, decision-making, and predictive capabilities.

According to Precedence Research, the global AI in aviation market size was estimated at USD 653.74 million in 2021 and it is expected to surpass around USD 9.98 billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 35.38% from 2022 to 2030 (see chart).

Recent developments in avionics and information technology have greatly minimized the need for manual inputs and actions by pilots, particularly for routine tasks. Pilots now spend more time overseeing, managing, and programming control panels within the cockpit, rather than focusing on the traditional hands-on flying of the aircraft.

AI-infused avionics are poised to further streamline operations, improve safety, and optimize fuel efficiency. Leading-edge avionics can help reduce fuel burn, which in turn reduces carbon emissions and helps aircraft meet new and stringent “green” regulations.

As AI systems enhance the operational performance of aircraft, demand for such planes is surging, driving up base values and leasing prices.

Conversely, older aircraft lacking these capabilities may see depreciation, pushing down their value in the secondary market. This trend is likely to redefine the competitive landscape in aviation, positioning AI-enabled aircraft as the future standard for both commercial and military aviation.

This article also appears in the October 7 issue of our partner publication Aircraft Value News.

Editor’s Note: To watch a video presentation on this avionics-related topic, visit https://www.aircraftvaluenews.com/video/

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