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DARPA Taps Northrop Grumman To Develop AI ‘Assistant’ For Black Hawk Pilots

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022

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DARPA Taps Northrop Grumman To Develop AI ‘Assistant’ For Black Hawk Pilots

A Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

DARPA has tapped Northrop Grumman [NOC] to develop an artificial intelligence solution that could serve as an “assistant” to UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilots, the company said Tuesday. Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the University of Central Florida, will build an AI prototype, called the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant (OCARINA), that’s designed to be embedded in augmented reality (AR) headsets to help pilots perform tasks. “The goal of this prototype is to broaden a pilot’s skillset,” Erin…

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