Training and Workforce
Blue Force Contracted for Unmanned Adversary Development
The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are looking for cheaper ways of providing adversary training, with autonomous air vehicles to the fore.
Blue Force’s Bandit design is intended to replicate the capabilities of fifth-generation threats to provide realistic training to U.S. fighter pilots. (Photo: Blue Force Technologies)
Blue Force’s Bandit design is intended to replicate the capabilities of fifth-generation threats to provide realistic training to U.S. fighter pilots. (Photo: Blue Force Technologies)

Blue Force Technologies has been awarded a contract by the Aerospace Systems Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop its unmanned air vehicle—known as Bandit—for the adversary air (ADAIR) training mission. The Small Business Innovation Research contract was awarded after Blue Force’s strategic financing (STRATFI) proposal was selected by the AFWERX, AFRL’s innovation directorate.


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