
The Marine Corps has selected AeroVironment [AVAV], Anduril Industries and Teledyne FLIR Defense [TDY] for a new competitive program to provide lightweight loitering munitions for infantry squads. The three firms picked for the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program will work under a potential eight-year, $249 million contract that covers building, testing and delivering their non-developmental armed drones. “The flexibility, adaptability and breadth of our proposed OPF-L platform will boost small unit lethality across the large target set Marines must confront…