The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking industry input to help design and develop automation to be inserted into existing aircraft with the goal of reducing the number of onboard crew members. The Automated Labor In-cockpit Automation System, or ALIAS, seeks to "foster enhanced human-machine collaboration for reduced workload, improved safety and new mission capabilities," according to the May 12 broad agency announcement. DARPA is eying a "tailorable, drop-in, removable kit" to enhance automation in existing planes, the announcement states. "As an automation system, ALIAS should be capable of executing a planned mission from takeoff to landing, even in the face of contingency events such as aircraft system failures," the announcement states. "For the purposes of ALIAS demonstration planning, the considered mission set should be consistent with logistics or intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) type missions, generally planned at the waypoint level."
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