Collaborative mission autonomy tested in operational
settings during U.S. Army exercise
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz.,
Oct. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- RTX (NYSE: RTX) businesses,
Collins Aerospace and Raytheon, collectively showcased new
capabilities at the U.S. Army's Experimental Demonstration Gateway
Event (EDGE). These capabilities enabled launched effects to team
and execute a mission, merging collaborative vehicle autonomy with
human on-the-loop command. Launched effects is a capability term
that describes small, uncrewed aircraft that can be launched from
the ground, air platforms, or other vehicles.
The RTX team demonstrated two collaborative autonomy solutions
to find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess a broad spectrum of
threats:
- Collins demonstrated its RapidEdgeTM mission system
and software toolset as the "brains" enabling the collaboration
between a team of uncrewed aerial vehicles with various payloads
that flew as launched effects surrogates.
- Raytheon deployed autonomy capabilities previously developed
through the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment
government program and showcased Launched Effects capabilities
developed for the combat-proven Coyote® family of unmanned aircraft
systems.
Both solutions were able to share data, seamlessly demonstrating
the utility of modular open system architectures and mesh
networks.
"RTX's demonstration at EDGE showed how autonomous sensing and
effects can extend the Army's reach, delivering sensing and effects
in anti-access or area denial environments," said Ryan Bunge, vice president and general manager
for Collins' C4I&A portfolio. "Leveraging capabilities across
RTX, we were able to show interoperability between our
collaborative autonomy solutions, demonstrating the power and
long-term benefits of open system architectures."
This mission system translated the human operator's primary
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance goals for the team
to act on and outline behavioral parameters according to the Army's
playbook for mission execution. The team executed the threat
detection mission and decided how best to proceed in real-time,
even when command links to the ground operators were severed,
validating autonomy for launched effects to help the Army advance
this critical capability.
The demonstration was sponsored by the U.S. Army Futures Command
Future Vertical Lift Cross Functional Team to expand the U.S.
Army's targeting, reconnaissance and lethality capabilities through
manned and unmanned teaming. EDGE is part of the U.S. Army Future
Command's campaign of learning to drive transformational
advancement across the Army's modernization priorities.
About RTX
With more than 185,000 global employees, RTX pushes the limits
of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect
our world. Through industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace,
Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon – we are advancing aviation,
engineering integrated defense systems, and developing
next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help
global customers address their most critical challenges. The
company, with 2023 sales of $69
billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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