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Industry Awaits Next Phase of DARPA’s Gremlins UAS Program

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Industry Awaits Next Phase of DARPA’s Gremlins UAS Program
General Atomics unveiled a concept for an air-launched, air-recoverable unmanned air system at an Air Force Association conference Sept. 19 to 21 in National Harbor, Md. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose Gremlins program is developing an air-launched, air-recoverable unmanned air system, is nearing completion of the program’s first phase and is gearing up for the second phase.Four companies – Dynetics, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), Kratos [KTOS] subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. and Lockheed Martin [LMT] – received Phase 1 contracts for initial design work in March. DARPA is expected to issue a request for proposals for Phase 2…

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