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Army

Lockheed Martin Receives $18 Million To Prototype EW Pod For Army UAS

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, January 29th, 2019

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Lockheed Martin Receives $18 Million To Prototype EW Pod For Army UAS

A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Photo: U.S. Army.

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Tuesday it has received $18 million to develop the Army’s first electronic warfare pod to provide jamming capabilities on unmanned aerial systems. The Army awarded Lockheed Martin a rapid prototyping Other Transaction Agreement to build and test the new EW pod for the “Air Large” component of its Multi-Function Electronic Warfare (MFEW) program on MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS. Lockheed Martin said it will base the new prototype for the Army on its Silent CROW open architecture…

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