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With over 50 proposals received, the Autonomy Prime First Fly-Off (Call 001), is now closed. The team is diligently working to evaluate these alternate navigation solutions for small UAVs, award contracts, and start flying!

Autonomy Prime

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Autonomy Prime is working to evaluate, iterate, and mature emerging missions and applied autonomy technologies into fielded capabilities.

Lines of Effort

Autonomy Proving Grounds

  • Outward facing “tech scouting”
  • Low cost Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) test beds
  • Multi-program high performance computing and data pipeline

Multi-Vehicle Control Interface

  • Human/operator machine interfaces
  • Government architecture for app-based capabilities

Autonomous Air Operations 

  • Remotely supervised autonomous cargo aircraft
  • Rapid autonomy kits – partnering with federal organizations to inform regulations and certification standards

Enabling Technologies

  • Mission capabilities for early risk reduction
  • Bolster tech-base of autonomy related companies
  • Examples: Detect and Avoid (DAA), Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Run-Time Assurance (RTA) and Alternative Positioning, Navigation & Timing (Alt-PNT)
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