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General Atomics Receives $93 Million To Work On JAIC’s ‘Smart Sensor’ For UAS Program

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General Atomics Receives $93 Million To Work On JAIC’s ‘Smart Sensor’ For UAS Program
General Atomics' SkyGuardian, a variant of its Type-Certifiable Predator B UAV. Photo: General Atomics.

General Atomics has received a $93 million deal to work on a program for DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) developing an AI-enabled “Smart Sensor” for unmanned aircraft systems. JAIC has partnered with the Air Force for the Smart Sensor program, which will look to support the service’s Advanced Battle Management System effort.  Lt. Cmdr. Arlo Abrahamson, a JAIC spokesman, told Defense Daily, Smart Sensor will add on-board processing to unmanned aircraft to “reduce sensor data transmission requirements by sending…

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