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Army Taps Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman To Develop Payloads For Launched Effects Drones

Army Taps Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman To Develop Payloads For Launched Effects Drones
DAGOR vehicle launches an Air Launched Effect-Small drone at Army's EDGE21 demonstration at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Photo: Army's Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team.

The Army has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] to work on developing sensing and electronic warfare payloads for its Launched Effects drone program.  The multi-phased competitive prototyping effort will begin with both firms testing and integrating payloads to mature their existing technologies, with an aim to inform future program plans. “This competitive first phase of a multi-phased [Other Transaction Authority] project will develop a vendor statement of work and an initial project plan for Phases 2 and…

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