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By TARA COPP | MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU Published: December 23, 2020 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — As a helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, now-Sen. Tammy Duckworth stopped drinking water hours before she climbed into the cockpit of her Army UH-60 Black Hawk for combat missions. Even in Iraq’s heat, she’d purposefully dehydrate herself because there was not a safe way for her to use the restroom in her one-piece, zip-up flight suit. “I would have to take off my side arm. I wore a shoulder holster, so I would have to take off my shoulder holster. Then I would have to take o...

U.S. Air Force Air Force pilots in the not-so-distant future could fly and fight together like Luke Skywalker and R2-D2. One of the Air Force’s top officials is confident the service’s secret new fighter jet will have an artificial intelligence copilot. The AI could take over key tasks, flying and fighting the plane, to prevent the human pilot from being overwhelmed. The U.S. Air Force's secret new fighter jet, which it designed, built, and tested in just one year, will feature some kind of artificial intelligence copilot—a trusted computer algorithm that human pilots can rely on to ...

By MISSY RYAN | The Washington Post | Published: October 30, 2020 When Alexandra Jackson joined the West Virginia Air National Guard in 2018, she was looking forward to becoming a pilot with the 167th Airlift Wing, like her father. But at 5-foot-1, three inches shorter than the minimum standard, Jackson soon learned she would need a waiver to fly her unit's C-17 transport plane and one of the two trainer aircraft before that. Jackson applied for the waivers but was denied. "It was heartbreaking, to say the least," she said. She then sought a different exception that sometimes is granted ...

Formula 1 vehicle racing digital engineering practices inspire US Air Force's Roper by Pat Host The US Air Force’s (USAF’s) acquisition executive is drawing inspiration from a Formula 1 racing team’s digital engineering practices as he tries to apply these concepts to the service’s next-generation aircraft. Will Roper, USAF assistant secretary for acquisition, technology, and logistics (AT&L), said on 18 December that Formula 1 teams perform digital engineering across a racing season from their first conversation. These racing teams, he said, deal with 85% parts obsolescence year to y...

By   Barry Rosenberg on December 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM Northrop Grumman’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) gateway system reached 200,000 combat operational flight hours since its first deployment with the Air Force in 2008 In any potential “Great Power” conflict, the advantage will go to those military forces that can share information and operate together proactively and in real time across all domains. Observing, orienting, deciding, and acting faster with greater precision, effectiveness, and speed than adversaries is the next-generation technological edge for the J...