Skyborg: Bold Example Or Another Joint Mistake?
By Brent Sadler and John Venable on August 19, 2020 at 1:18 PM
Is the Air Force about to make the same mistakes with Skyborg that it made with the F-22 and F-35? Sure, they created the most capable aircraft in the world, but they neglected to give them the capacity to share their assessment of the air battlespace situation with our other fighters—and sharing data is the crux of joint operations.
While the Air Force is moving full speed ahead on Skyborg, we don’t know if it’s working with the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) to ensure data sharing — interoperability — in the program. And that goes for the Navy and its efforts to develop its own autonomous platforms.
This is especially troubling since unmanned systems will be a major part of the Defense Department’s future force structure, and Skyborg, the Air Force’s autonomous combat drone program, is on the leading edge of that effort.
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/skyborg-bold-example-or-another-joint-mistake/
