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U.S. Army Explores Manned-unmanned Air System Integration

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The Northrop Grumman MQ-5 Hunter will be one of a number of unmanned aircraft systems taking part in a U.S. Army exercise to explore manned-unmanned teaming concepts.

August 29, 2011

The U.S. Army will mount the largest yet demonstration of manned and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) interoperability.

The manned unmanned systems integration concept (Music) exercise will take place September 15 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Music will demonstrate new manned-unmanned teaming concepts. These include the use of a universal ground-control station (UGCS) to manage multiple, different UAS platforms, and the ability of a soldier on the ground to steer a UAS sensor payload using the one-system, remote-video terminal (OSRVT). The first iteration of the army’s mini-universal, ground-control stations (M-UGCS) will be rolled out, demonstrating movement toward a common controller for small UAS, including the Aerovironment RQ-11B Raven and Puma AE. The service also plans to demonstrate M-UGCS control of the sensors on a larger General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Other participating aircraft will be AH-64D Block II Apache and OH-58D Kiowa helicopters and AAI Corp. RQ-7 Shadow and Northrop Grumman MQ-5 Hunter UAS.

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