Date: 26 Apr 2004
The Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR) development team is strengthening its technical diversity and sensor systems capabilities by adding Raytheon Company.
Raytheon will play a significant role in the development and deployment of sensors and related technologies for the 1UCAR system, Lockheed told www.uavworld.com.
The goal of UCAR, a programme conducted with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value of a system of unmanned rotorcraft capable of autonomous collaboration with manned and unmanned air and ground systems. The UCAR system is in development for the U.S. Army.
“The combination of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin expertise creates a formidable sensor capability," said Jeff Bantle, vice president, Multi-Mission Solutions with Lockheed Martin Systems Integration - Owego. "Advanced sensor technology is critical to a system of vehicles that will be required to respond to battlefield conditions and operate collaboratively."
The UCAR system can operate as a part of a heterogeneous unmanned system team controlled from the ground or as a collaborative element of a manned-unmanned (MUM) aviation team.
Other members of Lockheed Martin's UCAR team include Bell Helicopter Textron Inc; The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; Harris Corporation; DRS Technologies; Whitney, Bradley and Brown; Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) and four Lockheed Martin businesses.
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