The Pentagon's advanced research shop and industry partner Northrop Grumman [NOC] are moving into the next phase of a program that will allow Army personnel to coordinate the tactical operations of unmanned sensor aircraft more efficiently and enable soldiers at lower echelons in areas like urban terrain to call up and receive imagery readily from these platforms, officials from both organizations said recently. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Northrop Grumman showed during the initial phase of the…
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