Northrop’s Talon IQ Switches AI ‘Brains’ Mid-Air in Landmark Flight

Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated how its Talon IQ testbed aircraft can switch AI “brains” mid-flight without interrupting a mission.

During a landmark test, the aircraft flew using Prism autonomy software before transferring mission control mid-flight to systems from Applied Intuition and Accelint.

The demo of multiple autonomy handovers showed that Prism can run software from different sources while remaining aligned with US government architecture requirements.

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