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RDRTec to Help Navy Design Fire Scout, Triton Drones’ Collision Avoidance Tech

RDRTec to Help Navy Design Fire Scout, Triton Drones' Collision Avoidance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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The Navy has awarded RDRTec a $3 million contract to develop a radar technology that would allow drones to sense and avoid other aircraft in airspace, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday.

John Keller writes that RDRTech will build an autonomous collision avoidance system for the Navy’s fleet of MQ-8 Fire Scout and MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles.

The company won the contract through the Office of Naval Research’s Rapid Innovation Fund initiative, according to Keller.

Keller reports the contract is meant to support drones’ future integration into domestic airspace.

RDRTech has built a Fire Scout UAV sense-and-avoid system under a separate Navy program by using active phased array and signal processing technologies.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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