STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has received a Phase 3 contract for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's cockpit automation program.
The program, known as the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, or ALIAS, is an effort to reduce pilot workloads by designing cockpit computer systems to function more independently. Sikorsky officials say the work will make military aircraft safer, and improve mission performance.