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Northrop Grumman Tweaking DA/RC Architecture

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

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Northrop Grumman Tweaking DA/RC Architecture

An MQ-4C Triton is shown after its arrival in Guam in 2020. (U.S. Navy Photo)

AIR FORCE PLANT 42 PALMDALE, Calif.—As the Pentagon tries to realize the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) vision, Northrop Grumman [NOC] said it has been hard at work on the company’s Distributed Autonomy/Responsive Control (DA/RC) architecture, which is to remove an aircraft’s dependence on continuous communication and to include a human selectable, “man on the loop” level of autonomy for aircraft. DA/RC is to apply across the spectra of conflict from permissive to highly contested environments in which…

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