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Air Force

BAE Looking To Offer MEAS Software For Air Force’s Legacy Aircraft Autonomy Efforts

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

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BAE Looking To Offer MEAS Software For Air Force’s Legacy Aircraft Autonomy Efforts

An F-16V. (Lockheed Martin photo)

BAE Systems is looking to offer its Mission Effectiveness Augmentation System (MEAS) autonomy software tools as a component to address pilot trust issues associated with the Air Force’s anticipated move towards more manned-unmanned teaming operations, a company official told Defense Daily.Skip Stolz, BAE System's director of strategic development for the autonomy, control, and estimation group, said the company’s advanced autonomy software package could be used in a proposed plan to begin ‘unmanning’ the Air Force’s fleet of legacy, fourth-generation aircraft.“One…

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