Air Commodore James Badgery
Director General Defence Aviation Safety Authority Royal Australian Air Force
Agenda
12:40 PM Panel: Flying Without a Pilot: What Air Force Readiness Looks Like in an Autonomous Era
As uncrewed platforms, AI-assisted decision support and human-machine teaming move from trial to frontline capability, the RAAF faces a fundamental question: what does it actually take to call an autonomous air system mission-ready? This session unpacks how the Air Force is rewriting certification; training and support models built for a crewed force to fit one that increasingly isn't.
Certifying the uncertifiable: how existing airworthiness and readiness standards are being adapted — or replaced — to account for autonomous and AI-enabled platforms
Building the workforce behind the machine: the new skills, roles and training pathways needed for aircrew, maintainers and commanders to operate and trust autonomous systems
Keeping it flying: the sustainment and sovereign support challenge of maintaining autonomous air platforms in the field, without the traditional crewed-aircraft supply chain to lean on
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining James.
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