What Happened
California Company Achieves World First In Operational Air Mobility
Beacon AI, a California-based aviation software company, has successfully flown its AI pilot assistant system, Murdock, aboard operational U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus aircraft. The flights, which took place over five sorties and approximately 20 hours of flight time, demonstrated the system’s ability to provide advisory capabilities to aircrews without modifying the aircraft’s certified flight-critical systems. This milestone was achieved under an AFWERX Tactical Funding Increase contract with Air Mobility Command, as reported by PR Underground.