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Northrop, DARPA Launching Open Architecture Drone Swarm

Friday, February 16th, 2018

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Northrop, DARPA Launching Open Architecture Drone Swarm

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is launching an open-architecture swarm of small drones and is inviting third-party participants to test small-unit tactics with the platform designed to rapidly develop technologies through “swarm sprints.”The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected Northrop Grumman to participate in the first phase of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program as a swarm systems integrator.The company is tasked with designing, developing and deploying a swarm-system, open-based architecture for swarm technologies in both a game-based environment and physical…

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