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Aerospace Has Two Kinds of AI Assurance. Agentic Systems Need a Third.

Certification and model health monitoring both fall short of testing whether an agent's decision loop can be manipulated before it acts.

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Saab's AI Fighter Agents and the Certification Gap Nobody Has Closed

Saab's Gripen E AI pilot trials and eVTOL's unbroken string of zero type certificates point to the same unresolved problem: airworthiness regimes built for deterministic software.

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Explainable AI for Defense Systems Is Still R&D, Not a Certified Capability

Fresh SBIR funding for real-time model health monitoring shows explainable AI assurance in defense aerospace remains pre-competitive research, not a purchasable safeguard.

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Two Defense AI Claims, Zero Independent Verifiers, One Week

KAI's in-house UAV AI verification and Safe Pro's trade-show validation show how little civil frameworks like ISO 42001 or the EU AI Act reach into defense AI assurance.

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Defense AI Certification Is Becoming a Two-Track Problem

Runtime monitoring is emerging alongside, not instead of, pre-deployment certification, and buyers need to hold vendors accountable for both.

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Airworthiness Doesn't End at Certification. For AI, It Can't.

A new AFWERX contract for real-time model health monitoring signals that AI assurance in defense and aerospace must be continuous, not a one-time certification event.

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The Flight AI Certification Gap Still Has No Owner

Aviation regulators and vendors are converging on language for AI assurance faster than they are converging on evidence, leaving program leads to separate tested claims from marketing.