9 New DARPA Contracts to Foster Drone Swarm R&D

Submitted by tatwood on Tue, 04/28/2020 - 11:21


AWARD RECIPIENTS:

Thrust area: Physical test bed
Michigan Technological University/Michigan Tech Research Institute
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
HDT Expeditionary Systems, Inc.
Sentien Robotics
Texas A&M University

Thrust area: Swarm tactics
Michigan Technological University/Michigan Tech Research Institute
Charles River Analytics, Inc.
Soar Technology, Inc.
Northwestern University

Story and photo courtesy of DARPA and C4isrnet.com.

Thanks to CDR David Place (USN/Ret), davidplace47[at]gmail[dot]com, and Robin E. Alexander, President ATC, alexander technical[at]gmail[dot]com, for their assistance with this report, the background for which appeared in their  # 20 - 9 - 26 APRIL 2020 edition of the UNMANNED SYSTEMS NEWS (USN).

David distributes the Unmanned Systems News (USN), a free, comprehensive newsletter in PDF format every week or two, as well as serial news flashes, from which this NREF news update was sourced. To be included in his distribution, simply send David a subscribe request to davidplace47[at]gmail[dot]com.