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Aurora Flight Sciences Implements Lockheed-Built Unmanned Vehicle Control Platform

Aurora Flight Sciences Implements Lockheed-Built Unmanned Vehicle Control Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Aurora Flight Sciences Implements Lockheed-Built Unmanned Vehicle Control Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting eventBoeing‘s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has adopted a software platform Lockheed Martin developed to help operators manage numerous unmanned vehicles for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

Aurora Flight Sciences purchased the Vehicle Control Station product in a move to accelerate its autonomous technology development efforts, Lockheed said Tuesday.

VSCi is built upon an open architecture framework and designed to comply with the NATO STANAG 4586 standard interface for unmanned aerial vehicle control systems.

“We are in the middle of testing VCSi flight modes and route uploads against our ground and flight software,” said Sean Engdahl, senior software engineer at Aurora Flight Sciences.

Keith Purtle, business development manager at Lockheed’s CDL Systems business, said Aurora Flight Sciences has used the VCS-4586 vehicle control station over the past decade.

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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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