Pentagon seeks low-cost AI drones to bolster Air Force: Here are the companies competing for the opportunity

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Only Boeing has shown the plane it submitted for its Pentagon proposal, while others have shown some potential AI capabilities in existing craft.

The Pentagon will look to develop new artificial intelligence-guided planes, offering two contracts that several private companies have been competing to obtain. The Collaborative Combat Aircraft project is part of a $6 billion program that will add at least 1,000 new drones to the U.S. Air Force.

The variant, called Roadrunner-M, 'can rapidly launch, identify, intercept and destroy a wide variety of aerial threats or be safely recovered and relaunched at near-zero cost.' General Atomics even a year ago actively promoted its CCA 'ecosystem' with the showcase of its Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System paired with 'digital twin' aircraft to 'autonomously conduct live, virtual and constructive multi-object collaborative combat missions.

 

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