General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) said on Jan. 11 that a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger drone advanced the company's internally funded work on Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) in three autonomous missions last month. On Dec. 14, the Avenger, paired with "digital twin" planes, conducted simulated combat missions from GA-ASI's Desert Horizons flight operations facility in El Mirage, Calif., and the company's Reinforcement Learning (RL) architecture, developed using industry-standard tools, including Docker and Kubernetes, allowed the artifical intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled Avenger …
