Mini UAV

Objective:

Enhance the Light Forces’ missions by extending the effective range of the foot soldier by over the hill observation.

Justification:

Enhanced Situational Understanding for Scout Battalion and below

Over the Hill Surveillance capability Enhances Survivability and Lethality of Small Unit Forces

Proponent:

Mounted Battle Lab (Knox), DBBL (Benning), TSM UAV

Acquisition:

PEO-IEW&S

• NVESD/AATD joint development Approach:

• Survey sensor technology

• Utilize comm’l COTS 36”wingspan UAV

• Single man portable, Deploy Launch, Recover

• Integrate and Test FLIR/Night operations

• Integrate COTS NAV system for Autonomous Ops

• Autonomous re-tasking and manual search patterns

• Investigate alternate sensors (Acoustics,Chem/Bio etc.)

• Flight test and Demonstration in FY02

FY99 FY00 FY01 FY02

Tech Assess

Prelim Sys.

Design

Integration

Sub-System

Test

Flight Test/

Data Collect

Demo

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