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Lockheed Martin Wins $4.6 Million DoD Contract For Development Of Maritime Cannister-Launched sUAS

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] was awarded a $4.6 million contract by the Defense Department’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) for continued development of a maritime canister-launched small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS).The company is working on a re-configurable version of the collapsible wing Vector Hawk sUAS. The Vector Hawk design for a man packable solution includes a fixed-wing aircraft for standard and long endurance missions, a collapsible fixed-wing aircraft that can be launched from a tube from land or water, a…

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