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  • Northrop, Navy Demo Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter in Sea Mine Detection Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Navy Demo Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter in Sea Mine Detection Mission

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with other autonomous assets to hunt sea mines, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Fire Scout demonstrated its situational awareness capability and capacity to communicate with a submersible drone and a small unmanned surface ship to perform underwater mine sweeping operations at the service’s […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

  • HII Demos Dual-Mode Undersea Vehicle at Navy-Hosted Tech Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Demos Dual-Mode Undersea Vehicle at Navy-Hosted Tech Exercise

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has demonstrated the performance of a dual-mode undersea vehicle through autonomous contested battlespace missions that took place at the U.S. Navy-hosted Advanced Naval Technology Exercise. The Proteus vehicle delivered and launched three smaller unmanned undersea platforms during the underwater mission segment of the event, HII said Wednesday. HII’s technical solutions division and Battelle jointly […] More