Operator Performance Lab Director Thomas "Mach" Schnell presented an overview of the research at OPL and broadly at the Iowa Technology Institute to the Iowa Board of Regents during its June meeting.

The partnership between the University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force has made the College of Engineering a destination for Test Pilot School officers seeking a PhD.

Tom “Mach” Schnell, University of Iowa professor of industrial and systems engineering and incoming director of the Iowa Technology Institute, is among six faculty members selected by the Iowa Board of Regents for extraordinary contributions and sustained record of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

The University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) has announced awards for three students whose outstanding contributions led to flight test innovation.

The University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) is a world-renowned flight test laboratory that conducts research on human-in-the-loop and intelligent autonomous systems

University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory has played an important role in advancing the next generation of fighter jets, which will mainly be artificial-intelligence-powered drone fighters taking their cues from pilots in nearby stealth jet, according to a recent analysis by Sandboxx News.

Preliminary testing at the University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory helped pave the way for Lockheed Martin to demonstrate the ability to control unmanned aircraft from the cockpit of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F-22 Raptor, according to a new report in The War Zone

The critical partnership between Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, and the Operator Performance Lab at the University of Iowa Technology Institute facilitates early TRL testing of CJADC2 capability-enabling solutions that reduces costs to customers.

University of Iowa's Operator Performance Laboratory in partnership with Lockheed Martin teams showcased a crewed-uncrewed teaming mission where an airborne battle manager issued real-time commands to AI-controlled aircraft through a touchscreen pilot vehicle interface.

The United States Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) recently collaborated with the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) in deploying two highly modified L-29 jets to Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California.