UNMANNED HELICOPTER DEAL FOR LOCKHEED.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - A Lockheed Martin team that includes the Palmdale ``Skunk Works'' was awarded $9.4 million to perform preliminary design work on a proposed Army unmanned helicopter. 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 Army awarded contracts to the Lockheed Martin team and to Northrop Grumman to conduct preliminary design work for the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft. At the end of the contract, scheduled for September 2004, DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. and the Army will select one of the teams to build two demonstrator aircraft. The goal of the joint DARPA-Army program is to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value for a UCAR UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research UCAR Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft UCAR Utility Cost Analysis Report system to perform armed reconnaissance and attack missions. The Lockheed Martin team includes Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., 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. ; The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., formerly the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, was founded by Charles Stark Draper in the late 1930s to teach students how to design the scientific instruments necessary to accurately measure and study motion. , Cambridge, Mass.; and Whitney, Bradley and Brown, Vienna, Va. Lockheed Martin business units involved in the program include Systems Integration Owego in New York; Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla.; Advanced Technology Laboratories, Cherry Hill, N.J.; and the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Palmdale. Palmdale will have about 20 to 30 people involved in the effort. |
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