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Autonomy Prime Fly-Off to Focus on Alternative Navigation

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Autonomy Prime Fly-Off to Focus on Alternative Navigation
Griff Aviation's 8-foot Griff 135 unmanned aerial system lifts off from the Eglin AFB,, Fla. range last Oct. 26. The aircraft was part of autonomy testing for the Autonomy, Data and AI Experimentation Proving Ground (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm, AFWERX, released an Innovative Capabilities Opening for Autonomy Prime on Jan. 31 to develop low-cost autonomous technologies for the service and to conduct a small drone fly-off at Duke Field, Fla., focusing on navigation systems that provide an alternative to GPS, if the latter is jammed or unusable. Autonomy Prime is to build upon the commercial electric vertical takeoff and landing-focused Agility Prime effort, which began in 2020. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter…

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