EP 90 — Grid Aero's James Gherdovich on Why Autonomous Logistics Must Self-Heal, Not Just Deliver
Removing the pilot from an exquisite manned airframe doesn't make it expendable; it actually makes it more expensive to lose. James Gherdovich, Chief Strategy Officer at Grid Aero, argues that strapping a high-end autonomy suite onto a platform already limited by constrained supply chains only increases economic risk to the force in a kinetic environment.
Grid Aero's answer is a 40x40-foot autonomous cargo aircraft built from scratch: thousands of pounds for thousands of miles, GPS- and comms-denied capability, with two separate in-house AI stacks, all designed to be mass-produced and…
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