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Air Force CCA Mission Autonomy Phase Begins With Software From Collins Aerospace And Shield AI

Air Force CCA Mission Autonomy Phase Begins With Software From Collins Aerospace And Shield AI
Pictured is a General Atomics' photo of three of the company's YFQ-42As at a test site in California.

The Air Force is highlighting RTX's [RTX] Collins Aerospace and Shield AI as early examples of the potential for the service's Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) to adapt new, vendor agnostic software easily into major weapons systems, such as the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1 program. "The A-GRA is being integrated by the program’s mission autonomy vendors, RTX Collins and Shield AI, which have started semi-autonomous flight testing in partnership with General Atomics on the YFQ-42 platform…

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