Acuity Technologies and Piasecki Aircraft Corp., are both in the midst of a phase two Navy small business innovation research (SBIR) effort to develop a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be deployed from either a Lockheed Martin [LMT] P-3C or Boeing's [BA] P-8 surveillance aircraft. For Menlo Park, Calif.-based Acuity, this is their first Navy SBIR program. Their concept is a folding wing, tail-less, flying wing, UAV dubbed the AT-3 OWL. The Navy required the UAV to be wing…
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