AI ‘Brain’ Helps MQ-20 Avenger Drone Change Course When Threats Pop Up

Agentic AI took center stage in a new MQ-20 Avenger drone demonstration focused on real-time mission adaptation and tactical decision-making.

During the event, operators in Virginia used the cloud-based Optix.C2 command-and-control system to coordinate with an MQ-20 flying in California.

The drone began an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission by autonomously patrolling a designated Combat Air Patrol (CAP) zone. 

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