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FY19 ANNUAL REPORT

Sandia’s MESA labs at sunrise

Generating hypersonic flight plans with Georgia Tech. Researchers at Sandia collaborated with Georgia Tech to develop an autonomous mission-planning solution that reduces the time to generate hypersonic flight plans from months to minutes—enabling rapid response to time-sensitive threats. Flight

plans generated using this method are realistic, feasible, and satisfy and validate current constraints for flight. New projects with Georgia Tech and Purdue University are looking to advance this capability to develop a scrimmage tool for realistic engagements.

—enabling rapid response to time-sensitive threats.

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