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Navy/USMC

Navy To Demonstrate Unmanned Aircraft Replenishment During Summer Exercise

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

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Logo of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). (Image: U.S. Navy)

The Navy is planning to conduct a technology demonstration of a logistical replenishment for the service using an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) this summer to inform future development. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Experimentation Office (NEO) is working with PMA-263 and IMPAX (NAWCAD’s partner for experimentation, technology demonstrations, and prototyping) to “accelerate the identification and evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) capable of performing autonomous logistical replenishment from shore-to-ship, ship-to-ship, and ship-to-shore,” according to a notice published March…

Congress

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