Skyborg
Abstract
Skyborg is an autonomous, attritable vehicle architecture suite which will enable the Air Force to posture, produce and sustain multi-mission sorties at sufficient tempo to thwart adversary attempts at quick, decisive action in contested and highly contested environments. Skyborg is organized into three main lines of effort (LOEs). LOE 1 develops, demonstrates, and prototypes the Autonomy Core System (ACS) consisting of Skyborg autonomy architecture and software, enabling machine-machine and manned-unmanned teaming, while also ensuring openness, modularity, and expandability of the Skyborg autonomy mission systems suite. The ACS LOE also develops, demonstrates, and prototypes the hardware components and Open Architecture standards needed to allow modular sensor, communication, and other payload integration into the Skyborg autonomy and vehicle architectures in systems integration laboratories and platforms. LOE 2 (Low-cost vehicles) develops, demonstrates, and prototypes new low cost attritable vehicle concepts and technologies for expeditionary mass generation including sortie generation employment concepts. LOE 3 (Operational Experimentation) conducts analysis and experimentation on concepts of operations and concepts of employment for attritable, autonomous, unmanned systems and assesses the openness, and modular capabilities / sensors integration for autonomous, attritable, aircraft and mission systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- c284d8f52764f379b4b3a00b5a9342d9