Boeing has been awarded a three-year $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate technologies that enable multiple small unmanned aerial vehicles to coordinate with each other and a manned airborne control station to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Foxhunt multi-small unmanned aerial system cooperative control demonstration will leverage Boeing’s networked systems expertise and technology advancements.
“The focus of the Foxhunt program is the airborne control of a varied mix of unmanned aerial vehicles,” said Patrick Stokes of Boeing Research & Technology, the company’s advanced, central research, technology and innovation organization that is managing the research project. “It’s part of a grander vision outlined by the Air Force Research Laboratory to include the air launch, command-and-control and airborne recovery of unmanned aerial systems–all from an airborne mother ship.”
