Tag Archives: Chris Van Buiten

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has named Continuous Composites winner of the ninth Entrepeneurial Challenge for developing a 3D printing technology designed to manufacture carbon fiber components.

A team consisting of Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary is slated to conduct ground-based propulsion testing for its SB-1 Defiant compound helicopter after the aircraft completed its first three flights, Rotor and Wing reported Friday.

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has handed over its S-97 Raider compound helicopter to a team to improve the design of the company’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft offering for the U.S. Army, Rotor & Wing International reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Army has demonstrated an autonomous and optionally-piloted technology that Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary developed with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program. Lockheed said Monday Army pilots tested the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft — a modified version of the S-76B commercial helicopter — and onboard …

Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has found that issues associated with the flight control software caused the Aug. 2 hard landing incident involving the S-97 Raider aircraft prototype, Vertical Magazine reported Monday. The incident occurred as the prototype carried out a vertical take-off operation at the start of the test flight …

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a range of autonomous and unmanned technologies for reporters at the company’s Grand Prairie, Texas-based Missiles and Fire Control facility. The technologies include the Indago quadrotor unmanned aerial system, LM XE small UAS; Hydra Fusion Tools three-dimensional reconstruction software, Squad Mission Support System autonomous vehicle and Site Shuttle transport system, Lockheed …