
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) last week awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a $33 million contract for work to launch the Coyote Block 3 unmanned aircraft from unmanned vessels. The Coyote Block 3 autonomous strike program is a “rapid capability effort to achieve operational launch capability from Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and an unmanned underwater vessel (UUV),” a contract announcement said Feb. 26. The program’s intention, via intended concept of operations and tactics, techniques and procedures, is to provide intelligence,…