<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4GkV2V_1DyS4PcZ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4GkV2V_1DyS4PcZ00" width="800" height="450" >BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Bozeman aerospace company is developing new artificial intelligence technology for the U.S. military.Research focuses on strengthening aviation safety and helping ensure aircraft can operate effectively in GPS-contested areas.As AI becomes more advanced, Montana is playing an increasingly important role in aerospace and defense innovation.Volair Technologies Incorporated is developing AI-enabled navigation technology designed to help aircraft operate safely when GPS and traditional radio navigation systems fail.“Enemies are going to degrade our ability to navigate and communicate using existing matured capabilities, including GPS, and so getting ahead of, you know, that challenge is really (a) huge amount of military technology development,” said Eric Muir, founder and CEO for VTI Aerospace.He says the challenge is helping pilots navigate and land safely near airfields without relying on GPS or ground-based radio aids.Experts believe the technology could improve the resilience and safety of future military aviation missions.“When you have an incident where the GPS is jammed or degraded and we're starting to see more of this in modern military conflict, it really falls back on trend to pilots today to be able to navigate and execute the mission, and so as we look forward to future aircraft and military platforms that you know are driving towards less reliance on humans, we need to bring that resilience into software and be able to enable the aircraft to execute a mission and navigate without reliance on GPS,” Muir said.This project is intended to support both crewed and uncrewed aircraft operating in contested environments where traditional navigation systems may be disrupted, like a dead zone.VTI’s new sensor tech will be installed on aircraft particularly for landing and takeoff phases of flight“We bring sensors onto the aircraft to act like human eyesight and allow those sensors to provide the necessary navigation for the aircraft to take off and land and that could be at a regular airport runway, could also be at an austere location like a dirt landing strip or a stretch of highway, and it will allow kind of future military mission profiles without that reliance on GPS,” Muir said.VTI Aerospace says it is continuing to develop AI-powered perception and navigation technologies through partnerships with commercial and government organizations.</div></body>

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BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Bozeman aerospace company is developing new artificial intelligence technology for the U.S. military. Research focuses on strengthening aviation safety and helping ensure aircraft can operate effectively in GPS-contested areas. As AI becomes more advanced, Montana is playing an increasingly important role in aerospace and defense...

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BOZEMAN, Mont. — A Bozeman aerospace company is developing new artificial intelligence technology for the U.S. military. Research focuses on strengthening 

Bozeman company develops tech to help pilots operate when navigation systems fail

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