EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Edwards Air Force Base issued the following press release:

In August 2026, more than 80 individuals from industry, academia and the joint force converged on the historic Air Force Test Pilot School campus at Edwards Air Force Base for the inaugural X-62 Research Symposium. The three-day summit quickly set the foundation for future research in autonomy-enabled combat aviation through the nation's first AI X-plane.

The summit included briefings from the Department of the Air Force, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Research Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Air Force Institute of Technology, among others. Operational aircrew from an Air Combat ...