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Black Hawk to Trial DARPA/Sikorsky Robotic Co-Pilot

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

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Black Hawk to Trial DARPA/Sikorsky Robotic Co-Pilot

Sikorsky's Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA) in flight. (Sikorsky photo)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a drop-in kit to enable the automation or remote-control of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft. Called Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS), the U.S. Army used it to fly a Sikorsky [LMT] S-76B helicopter in a demonstration earlier this month.Next up? A Black Hawk."ALIAS' ultimate goal is to provide a flexible, extensible automation architecture for existing manned aircraft," Graham Drozeski, program manager for ALIAS, told sister publication Avionics International. The U.S. military wanted…

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