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Bell Moving to Scale Up Autonomous Delivery Drones for U.S. Military

Thursday, September 27th, 2018

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Bell Moving to Scale Up Autonomous Delivery Drones for U.S. Military

Bell [TXT] is developing the scalability and flight control software of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) family of vehicles to meet U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army requirements, Todd Worden, the Bell senior manager of global military business development and advanced tiltrotor systems, said in an interview at Modern Day Marine this week at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.Such developments are to meet a Marine Corps request for information issued in June for a Group 3 delivery drone…

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