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ERA-1

Research for what comes next.

A long-term research direction for fighter-aircraft flight management, object understanding, and human authorization.

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01 / PURPOSE

Long-term questions. Deliberate research.

ERA-1 is Actprove’s long-term research direction for autonomous fighter-aircraft flight management. It considers how object classification and an understanding of the surrounding environment could inform future systems.

Civilian-risk awareness and human authorization for consequential decisions are part of that research direction. ERA-1 is a research program, with its intended capabilities still to be investigated and validated.

02 / RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Questions worth exploring.

01

Flight-management research

Investigate the questions around autonomous flight management for future fighter-aircraft systems.

02

Object and scene understanding

Explore how classification and surrounding context could inform the aircraft’s understanding of its environment.

03

Human authorization

Consider civilian-risk awareness and the role of human authorization in consequential decisions.

03 / RESEARCH APPROACH

Investigate. Evaluate. Understand.

The program begins with research questions and the evidence needed to assess them.

  1. 01

    Frame the research

    Define the flight-management and perception questions that the program intends to explore.

  2. 02

    Examine the concepts

    Study how object understanding, surrounding context, and human authorization relate to future systems.

  3. 03

    Build an evidence base

    Evaluate research outcomes before progressing toward validated product capabilities.

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ERA-1 is a long-term research direction. The abstract study shown here is not an aircraft design or an operational system.

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