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 Air Force is seeking funding to let its pilots fly a little more than 1.1 million hours in fiscal 2027, which would be the most in about four years. But even if Airmen actually do fly all 1.1 million hours, it would still be short of the 1.3 million…