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Army RCCTO Taps BlueHalo To Develop sUAS Offensive Swarming Capability

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, February 24th, 2022

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Army RCCTO Taps BlueHalo To Develop sUAS Offensive Swarming Capability

BlueHalo Recently Awarded Army RCCTO HIVE Contract for the Development of Offensive Swarming UAS. Photo: BlueHalo

The Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) has awarded BlueHalo a $14 million deal to develop a small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) autonomous swarming capability, the company said Thursday. BlueHalo said it will work with Army RCCTO to develop the technology, called HIVE, by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning for swarm logic capabilities, communications systems and “evolving technologies within an operationally driven system-of-systems framework.” "Our customers continue to turn to BlueHalo to achieve what has never been…

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