The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle completed its inaugural flight March 5, 2019, at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. (DoD)
WASHINGTON — Boeing, General Atomics and Kratos will create prototypes for the Air Force’s Skyborg program and have a mere five months to build the first test vehicles of the autonomous combat drone.
As part of the Skyborg program, the Air Force hopes to build a family of low-cost, attritable drones that can be reused, but are cheap enough that losses in combat can be financially and operationally tolerated.
The project is meant to produce a family of uncrewed aerial systems that can move into contested spaces and conduct aerial missions that might be too dangerous for human pilots to perform.
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Update #1: These Three Companies Will Build Drones To Carry The Air Force's "Skyborg" AI Computer Brain (Warzone/The Drive)
Update #2: Boeing, General Atomics and Kratos to fly USAF Skyborg prototypes in 2021 (Flight Global)
WNU Editor: The three companies that the Air Force says it has hired to build prototype "loyal wingman" type drones to carry systems developed under the Skyborg program are Boeing, General Atomics, and Kratos.
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