The Navy and Marine Corps are examining the possibility of using unmanned helicopters to ferry cargo from ships to land but have not reached a conclusion as to whether it should be part of the requirements for the program, a Navy captain said Tuesday. Capt. Patrick Smith, the program manager for tactical unmanned aerial systems at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), told reporters that the possibility of evolving the existing land-based Cargo UAS program to also include ship-to-shore operations is…
