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Air Force Fit-Tests ISR Pod on Textron-Built Scorpion Light Attack Aircraft

Air Force Fit-Tests ISR Pod on Textron-Built Scorpion Light Attack Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Air Force Fit-Tests ISR Pod on Textron-Built Scorpion Light Attack Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting eventThe U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has integrated an intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance pod to a Textron-built light attack ISR aircraft to demonstrate how fast the multi-intelligence pod can be integrated on a new platform.

The Air Force said Tuesday Leidos helped install the AgilePod platform on the Scorpion aircraft as part of the fitting test at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in December.

The event marked the first time AgilePod was fit-tested on a commercially-built manned platform.

The AgilePod reconfigurable pod system was designed to help flight-line operators create sensor packages needed to meet specific mission requirements.

“We showed the openness of the pod by taking an aircraft with a standard set of mechanical and electrical interfaces and attaching the pod,” said Andrew Soine, electronics systems engineer at AFRL materials and manufacturing directorate.

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