Lockheed Martin Skunk Works demos autonomous reconnaissance pod
By Garrett Reim8 May 2020
Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs, known as Skunk Works, has demonstrated an artificial intelligence-powered intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) pod autonomously searching out and confirming a target.
The demonstration was conducted at Edwards Air Force Base in California using an ISR pod mounted on a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter, says the company on 8 May. The demonstration was conducted in Air Force Test Pilot School.
The pod was able “to detect and identify the location of the target, automatically route to the target, and capture an image to confirm the target in a simulated, denied-communications environment,†says Lockheed Martin.
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-uavs/lockheed-martin-skunk-works-demos-autonomous-reconnaissance-pod/138296.article
