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CCA Challenge: Accommodating Sensor Processing to Meet Size, Weight, Power, Cost Goals

Frank Wolfe

Friday, November 15th, 2024

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CCA Challenge: Accommodating Sensor Processing to Meet Size, Weight, Power, Cost Goals

Pictured is the X-62A Variable Stability In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) flying over Palmdale, Calif. on Aug. 26, 2022 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force's future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) may need a significant amount of processing power for sensors and mission autonomy, and the service and industry thus face a challenge of ensuring that the drones meet size, weight, and power constraints at an Air Force targeted unit cost of $30 million or less. "When you start talking about, on the sensor processing side, [the need for] 20 to 25 teraflops, each teraflop is one trillion calculations in a second,…

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