RTX, Shield AI Partner to Add Autonomy, AI to Defense Systems
DefenseNews: RTX and Shield AI have forged a partnership that will integrate two types of Shield AI’s advanced software into selected RTX defense platforms. The collaboration will bring Shield AI’s “Hivemind” artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy stack to an undisclosed “operational weapon,” which the companies say will be the first fielded system powered by Networked Collaborative Autonomy. The companies will fund this project without government investment. In addition, Shield AI’s ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) AI-powered sensor p…
US Air Force uses leftover ICBM funds to revamp Qatar plane
DefenseNews: The Air Force plans to use leftover funds from the LGM-35A Sentinel nuclear missile program to help pay for refurbishing a Qatari-donated plane into a new Air Force One presidential transport aircraft. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said in a June 26 hearing that the reallocated Sentinel money was “excess to need in [20]24,” and stressed the program to build new intercontinental ballistic missiles and launching infrastructure would not suffer or see further delays from moving funds around. “Let me be very clear, the Sentinel progr…
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