United States, Oct. 5 -- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Navy's Strike Planning and Execution Systems program office (PMX-281) collaborated on a demonstration of collaborative autonomous mission planning using GA-ASI's MQ-20 Avenger(R) Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) test aircraft on September 10 from GA-ASI's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, California, and the Mission Operations Center located in Poway, California.The team extended the Navy's planning systems with Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A?GRA)-compliant mission context. This allows mission autonomy software to understand a human commander's intent, then exercise autonomous judgment and autonomously coordinat...