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Development of British Military UAV Continues

The UPI reports on “the British Taranis technology demonstrator program.” The Taranis “is expected to be the largest UAV built in the United Kingdom as part of the strategic unmanned air vehicle experiment program.” As part of the aircraft’s “autonomy mission system,” defense contractor QinetiQ is building a “reasoning layer” which will “run complex decision-making and optimization algorithms on an embedded processor.” The company said that it is “develop[ing] the Taranis Reasoning Layer with Java due to the broad range of capabilities of that platform,” and that it was using Aonix-built “PERC ultra virtual machine technologies” in order “to support practical deployment” of the reasoning layer “in a real-time, embedded environment.”

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