A pilot flies an unmanned aerial vehicle at dusk.
Humans might see their roles throughout aviation and aerospace shift if Sandia National Laboratories can simplify manual tasks with artificial intelligence.
Test launches for hypersonic weapons – long-range missiles that fly a mile per second and faster – take weeks to plan. Cutting that time down from weeks to minutes for deployed systems is the goal of Autonomy New Mexico, an academic research coalition focused on creating artificially intelligent aerospace systems.
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