NNSA Unveils Aires Tide, Its First AI-Designed Flight Vehicle Under the Genesis Mission

A new flight test vehicle from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) shows what happens when AI, supercomputing, and 3D printing get folded into a single design pipeline. Called Aires Tide, the proof-of-concept aircraft was engineered to test whether national security hardware can move from blueprint to airborne test article on a…

A new flight test vehicle from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) shows what happens when AI, supercomputing, and 3D printing get folded into a single design pipeline. Called Aires Tide, the proof-of-concept aircraft was engineered to test whether national security hardware can move from blueprint to airborne test article on a…