USAF Special Ops Looking For UAS ‘Swarm Carrier’ For Autonomy Plan

Brian Everstine July 11, 2024

Personnel check a launch pod carrying Altius 600 UAS for a December 2023 Adaptive Airborne Enterprise demonstration.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
The Air Force’s Special Operations Command (AFSOC) wants to evolve its new autonomy effort to include uncrewed aircraft systems that can air-launch their own swarms of UAS. AFSOC has been undertaking the plan, called the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise, to have one airman control multiple UAS. The...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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