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The rise of A.I. fighter pilots
Friday, January 21, 2022
The University of Iowa Technology Institute's Operator Performance Laboratory is featured in the New Yorker article "The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots: Artificial intelligence is being taught to fly warplanes. Can the technology be trusted?"
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Collins teams with UI, OPL to demonstrate communication systems
Friday, January 14, 2022
Amidst the Pentagon’s push for Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control initiatives, Collins Aerospace recently teamed with the University of Iowa to run a series of exercises focused on resilient networking, intelligent sensing and secure autonomous processing.
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Collins Aerospace demonstrates Live Networked Joint Fires in the multi-domain battlespace
Friday, January 14, 2022
Collins Aerospace demonstrated potential applications of resilient networking, intelligent sensing, and secure autonomous processing at the University of Iowa Operator Performance Lab in Iowa City.
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UI military helicopters take off to demo tech for Joint Forces officials
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
University of Iowa Technology Institute has not one but two Mi-2 Hoplite helicopters, and this month both were airborne as part of a live flight test range demonstration incorporating high-powered night vision cameras mounted on the nose of one of the helicopters.
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OPL hosts Iowa Business Aviation Association luncheon
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
The University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Lab hosted aviation professionals from around the state for the Iowa Business Aviation Association’s (IBAA) quarterly luncheon.
ITI and OPL welcome teams behind DARPA's ACE program to advance AI dogfighting capabilities
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) hosted the quarterly integration meeting for DARPA's Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program to advance AI dogfighting capabilities at its hangar in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Video: Collins Aerospace TCTS-II OPL First Flight
Friday, July 9, 2021
Collins Aerospace Tactical Combat Training System II (TCTS II), a military training tool that includes Collins Aerospace Joint Secure Air Combat System (JSAS) technology, is flight-tested and ready for takeoff at University of Iowa’s Operator Performance Laboratory.
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UI scientists to expand space-based research on campus through new P3 grant
Friday, June 18, 2021
Faculty members from the Iowa Technology Institute, a research arm of the College of Engineering (CoE), are contributing to a new space-based, interdisciplinary research enterprise designed to strengthen University of Iowa’s competitiveness for NASA funding for space missions and instruments.
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OPL helps DARPA capture 'trust data' for new AI dogfighting
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) leveraged test flights using AV L-29 jets at the University of Iowa Technology Institute's Operator Performance Lab to gather early stage "trust data" for the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program.
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Iowa Technology Institute, Sonalysts partner to improve soldier performance
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Sonalysts, Inc. is teamed with University of Iowa Technology Institute on an Army Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Contract to Address “Physical Monitoring Techniques to Improve Warfighter Performance.”
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