ALIAS can fly a military helicopter and then move into another aircraft and fly that too— and ALIAS is not human. Driverless cars may have been making headlines of late, but DARPA’s ALIAS program has ...

The program is known as Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System or ALIAS. Manassas, Virginia: From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport in Manassas on ...