Flight tests validate mix-and-match approach to robot-wingman autonomy

The Air Force is using a framework to test autonomy on its drone wingman prototypes, showing that multiple companies can supply hardware and software for its future collaborative combat aircraft.Using the government-owned Autonomy Government Reference Architecture, or A-GRA, the service has integrated RTX Collins software with General Atomics YFQ-42 aircraft and Shield AI’s technology on Anduril's YFQ-44 CCA, according to a Thursday news release.“By proving the architecture functions