KMAX Experimentation and Support
Abstract
Funding provides for experimentation for unmanned cargo operations and includes complementary Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), payloads, advanced sensors, autonomy; efforts to refine requirements and concept of operations (CONOPS); and support of future unmanned programs of record, such as Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Expeditionary (MUX). The CQ-24A Cargo UAS is a unique, unmanned, sling-load capable aircraft that has had demand signals including moving cargo in permissive environments (e.g. food, fuel, medicine), combatting forest fires in the United States (specifically at night) when manned aircraft don't fly due to safety restrictions, and flying to locations that present dangerous or deadly conditions to humans (such as biological threats or radiation hazards). The program's 2 Marine Corps CQ-24A were successfully utilized in Afghanistan to support urgent operational needs in that theater of operations. The 2 CQ-24A aircraft and ground control system require contractor services to operate. Utilization of existing CQ-24A systems is an efficient risk reduction method.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 3427_0304240M_4_1319_PB_2019
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