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Army To Fly Autonomy-Enabled Black Hawk At Next Project Convergence

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Army To Fly Autonomy-Enabled Black Hawk At Next Project Convergence
The Sikorsky S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) Black Hawk was retrofitted with a technology kit to give it full-authority, fly-by-wire flight controls. Recently, this technology was tested in a first-of-its-kind mission, demonstrating the OPV Black Hawk’s complete supervised autonomy capabilities. Photo courtesy of Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company

The Army is planning to fly an autonomy-enabled Black Hawk helicopter, using technology developed in a DARPA program, at its next Project Convergence event, as the service looks to refine requirements for pursuing the technology on its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) fleet. “We’ve always said our aircraft will be optionally-manned, that’s part of our objective requirements. And we’re exploring that tech development path in [science and technology] efforts,” Maj. Gen. Walter Rugen, director of the FVL Cross-Functional Team, told reporters…

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