Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Jay McConville, Lockheed Martin director of business development for unmanned solutions, said Vector Hawk’s canister deployment and launch functions work […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from to provide support services for the British fleet of company-built small Desert Hawk 3 military unmanned aerial systems. The company said Thursday it modified the UAS platform to include modern sensor payloads as well as new launch, landing gear and mobile ground control systems. “Desert Hawk has […] More

Lockheed Martin has collaborated with Kaman Aerospace and Neya Systems to demonstrate the potential of an unmanned aerial vehicle to help evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield. The companies worked to operate a K-MAX unmanned helicopter and a ground control infrastructure to locate and transport a wounded individual to safety during a March 26 demonstration, […] More

Jay McConville, director of business development for unmanned solutions at Lockheed Martin, said the contractor is studying several avenues toward marketing its small unmanned aerial vehicles to civil and commercial clients, the National Defense Magazine reported Monday. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that the executive, speaking to reporters earlier in the week, highlighted the demand small drones have generated […] More

Lockheed Martin has integrated its Expeditionary Ground Control Station technology with the Fury unmanned aerial system to support communications, processing, payload tasking and other ground control operations. “[We] needed a ground control hardware implementation that was rugged, light-weight, and incredibly powerful,” Jay McConville, director of business development for Lockheed Martin’s Fury UAS, said Tuesday. The xGCS is built with military-rugged and […] More