The AIAA DEFENSE Forum is focused on aerospace technologies and their applications in national security. The 2022 forum will explore how the science and technology community can advance research and development to rapidly provide operationally relevant capabilities to the warfighter. This Secret/NOFORN event provides the ideal venue for leaders from government, military, industry, and academia to advance and accelerate modernization.

The confluence of machine intelligence and aeronautics is the next great revolution in air transportation. In attempting to introduce an entirely new approach to vehicle management into the world’s safest transportation system, the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) industry must merge two entirely different cultures: 1) Aviation safety-based and inherently risk averse2) Market-driven and experiment-based — while managing performance an...