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Army

Synturian Ready for AI and Manned-Unmanned Teaming, Textron Says

By Woodrow Bellamy III

Thursday, October 11th, 2018

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A new command and control collaboration technology developed by Textron Systems [TXT], Synturian, is ready to give military pilots the ability to control manned-unmanned teaming drones with just a few inputs from a cockpit display. Textron has been developing Synturian for several years and proved its ability to support manned-unmanned aircraft teaming during a July 2018 proof-of-concept demonstration. The demonstration paired Textron Aviation’s Scorpion light attack jet with simulated Nightwarden and Aerosonde drones. During an interview at the Association of…

Budget

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