Autonomous Flight Leaders Join Forces in Bid to Speed Certification

Xwing and Daedalean—which both produce automated systems for the cockpit—will collaborate on the development of certification standards.

Jack Daleo

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 02:40 PM ET

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Daedalean- (left) and Xwing-equipped aircraft are intended to simplify things for the pilot—or remove them from the cockpit entirely. [Courtesy: Xwing]

Key Takeaways:

Leading autonomous cockpit technology developers Xwing and Daedalean have partnered to accelerate their path to market.
The collaboration focuses on sharing data, knowledge, and processes to harmonize their approaches to certifying artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for aviation.
Both companies are actively working with regulators like the FAA and EASA to establish new certification guidelines for machine learning-based safety-critical avionics.
This partnership aims to create consensus on design assurance, speed up certification development, and foster safer, universally adopted standards for autonomous flight.

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Two of the leading companies looking to bring autonomy to the cockpit are joining forces.

On Wednesday, San Francisco-based Xwing partnered with Swiss firm Daedalean in a bid to accelerate both companies’ path to market. The intelligent systems developers agreed to share data, knowledge, and processes around artificial intelligence and machine learning as a way to harmonize their approaches to certification.