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Raytheon Wins $33 Million For Coyote Block 3 Unmanned Vessel Work

Monday, March 1st, 2021

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Raytheon Wins $33 Million For Coyote Block 3 Unmanned Vessel Work

An upgraded Coyote Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flies over the Avon Park Air Force Range, Fla. during a January 2016 demonstration flight. (Photo: NOAA)

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) last week awarded Raytheon Technologies [RTX] a $33 million contract for work to launch the Coyote Block 3 unmanned aircraft from unmanned vessels. The Coyote Block 3 autonomous strike program is a “rapid capability effort to achieve operational launch capability from Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) and an unmanned underwater vessel (UUV),” a contract announcement said Feb. 26. The program’s intention, via intended concept of operations and tactics, techniques and procedures, is to provide intelligence,…

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