PLATFORM SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF171-124

Description

The growing demand for flexible, extended duration UAS has accelerated LR, U-LE, and UAS requirements. The required UAS will host Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation of future airborne communication sensors; Aerial-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Electronic Warfare systems; and BLOS capabilities. This new suite of unmanned aerial sensor with real-time communication capabilities must provide demonstrable support to tactical ground, surface/at sea and littoral forward operating teams. Furthermore, UAS Line of Sight and BLOS operations must support ground or surface tactical mission teams and Tactical Operations Centers by providing mission command, control and communications. Current mission operations require a minimum 5-day endurance UAS and may extend up to a 10-day endurance while requiring continuous flight operations supporting mission payloads between twenty and sixty pounds (lbs.). To further decrease Non-Recurring Engineering costs to the Government, Open Architecture and Open Standards are required. With standardized interfaces, payload interchange and development costs are dramatically reduced over proprietary, stand-alone systems.The need for capabilities in this arena, Platform Aerospace has developed the VA-001 LR/U-LE as an agile, reconfigurable, and extensible airborne platform providing real-time and extended presence tactical support; which fully meets tactical small-group, independent and coordinated tactical mission execution currently requested by the Navy