MSBAI Delivers Autonomous Platform to Help Air Force’s Next-Gen Aircraft Development

MSBAI announced that it has completed its AFWERX Phase 2 SBIR contract, “GURU Owns the Modeling and Simulation Tech Stack.”

On Monday, the U.S. Air Force received from the Air Force Techstars 2020 firm an autonomous solution for use at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center, capable of setting up computational fluid dynamics simulations for high-speed aircraft in minutes.

The solution is part of the 2021 Air Force’s Digital Engineering Pitch Day program, an initiative to improve the service branch’s capabilities to develop next-generation supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, MSBAI said.

Vince Pecoraro, lead program manager at the Department of the Air Force Digital Transformation office, said that the solution will play a significant part in the military branch’s digital modernization efforts.

The GURU autonomous platform has been used for multiple efforts to improve operations. Its origins started in the U.S. Space Force. In December, the service branch tapped a partnership between MSBAI and Princeton University to develop the autonomous system to create training scenarios, build visualizations and review training scenarios.