
Lockheed Martin [LMT] Feb. 18 said it received a contract from the Army Robotics Technology Consortium to conduct a fully autonomous reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition experiment using both its Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicle and its K-MAX unmanned air vehicle. The terms of the contract are not being disclosed. Collaborating with Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, later this year, in a notional scenario, autonomous rotorcraft K-MAX will sling load a Gyrocam-equipped SMSS and…