The prestigious Grover E. Bell Award for recognizing outstanding research and experimentation in vertical flight development, this year honors two exceptional teams: the National Research Council of Canada’s AASCEND team and the DEVCOM AvMC ARCTIC team.
In a landmark achievement, the AASCEND team advanced full-scale rotorcraft autonomy by integrating an autonomous Bell 412 into a live military air assault exercise alongside crewed helicopters in degraded conditions—demonstrating supervised autonomy within an operational formation in non-segregated airspace. This breakthrough validates a scalable path for human-autonomy teaming and marks a significant step forward in autonomous vertical flight.
In photo, National Research Council team AASCEND team - Royal Canadian Air Force personnel from 1 Wing participate in the flying phase of Basic Tactical Aviation.
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