New information management tools developed by Boeing researchers and the Air Force Research Lab have demonstrated in recent tests that they can dramatically improve the ability of aircraft to acquire, sort and exchange real-time mission data with each other and ground-based command units, according to Boeing officials. Boeing’s Phantom Works engineers and AFRL used the F-15E1 advanced technology demonstrator to test the intelligent software agents, which showed they could autonomously infer and execute actions to access, evaluate, and integrate desired data—allowing aircraft to fully exchange information in real-time with the Global Information Grid.
The crash of a T-38 trainer jet this May—which caused a weekslong pause in flights across the fleet—was caused by an improperly installed pin for one of the jet’s horizontal stabilizers, according to a new accident report released Oct. 30. When the pin disengaged midflight, it created the slightest amount…