Golden Horde weapons demo

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is planning to start demonstrations later this year of its Golden Horde networked collaborative weapons effort, one of the service’s top science and technology (S&T) programs. Golden Horde is a group of technologies the AF is evaluating for network collaborative autonomous capabilities within existing weapon systems, Col. Garry Haase, AFRL munitions director at Eglin AFB, Fla., told Jane's at the Air Force Association's (AFA's) Air Warfare Symposium. The AF will experiment with how to have weapons talk and interact; and pass data into a network so they can better target and prioritize. AFRL calls it ‘play calling'. A play is an established collaborative behavior enabled, or disabled, when certain predefined conditions are met. Golden Horde uses a collection of plays loaded prior to a mission, that provides choice from which weapons can choose. The demonstration will center around the Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb 1 (CSDB-1), integrated by Applications and Research Associates Inc. AFRL will use multiple CSDB-1s and have them work together to prosecute a target. The AFRL will add in a Collaborative Miniature Air-Launched Decoy integrated by the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. to provide longer endurance and power platform. The goal, he said, is to demonstrate two different platforms talking and working together collaboratively to provide greater capability. (Source: Jane’s 03/01/20) https://www.janes.com/article/94620/afa-winter-2020-afrl-plans-golden-horde-networked-collaborative-weapons-demo-in-2020