
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has chosen California's Yates Electrospace Corp. to build six CLS-200 autonomous, attritable cargo drones under a $1.8 million direct to Phase II small business innovation research award, the company said on Monday. CLS-200 stands for Contested Logistics System-200 nautical miles and is to be able to carry 500 pounds. Yates said that its Silent Arrow product line consists of five attritable, autonomous drones able to transport 350 to 2,000 pounds of "emergency, disaster relief…