PALMDALE TO WORK ON ROTORCRAFT WORK TO TAKE 12 MONTHS; NO NEW JOBS TO BE ADDED.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Lockheed Martin's Palmdale plant will be involved in design work for the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft ro·tor·craft n. An aircraft, especially a helicopter, that is kept partially or completely airborne by airfoils rotating around a vertical axis. program proposed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. government agency administered by the Department of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). and the U.S. Army. Several other Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. units and other companies are part of the $3 million effort, which covers an initial 12-month concept development study. Lockheed Martin Palmdale employees will work with the aircraft design and sensor system, spokeswoman Dianne Knippel said. No jobs will be added because of it. The study is planned to demonstrate the aircraft's ability to perform armed reconnaissance and attack missions. During this concept development phase, the Lockheed Martin-ledteam will optimize the design. ``We understand the vision and expectations for an affordable UCAR UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research UCAR Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft UCAR Utility Cost Analysis Report system that operates without a dedicated mission control station,'' said Steve Ramsey, vice president of Aerospace Systems for Lockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The Lockheed Martin team includes Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. ; Charles Stark Draper Laboratories of Cambridge, Mass.; and Whitney, Bradley and Brown Inc. in Vienna, Va. Lockheed Martin business units involved in the UCAR program include Systems Integration - Owego in New York; Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla.; Advanced Technology Laboratories, Camden, N.J.; and the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in Palmdale. |
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