POTENTIAL OAV UTILIZATION Reconnaissance and Battle Damage Assessment NBC detection Airborne Datalink Patrol protected compound

ound environments Patrol airports, seaports, docks Autonomous or teleoperated IED and OED missions

As the prime contractor on major Army and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs focused on developing autonomous mobility technology, GDRS is in the unique position of being able to transfer new technologies and capabilities to the OAV-II program as they become available. Supporting autonomous technology programs at GDRS: Demo III a $23 million Army program focusing on developing key technology for autonomous mobility cross-country navigation. Semi-Autonomous Robotic Technology Insertion for FCS (SARTI) $12 million sole source follow-on to the Demo III project. Tactical Autonomous Combat-Chassis (TAC-C) $4.3 million, designed to test advances in autonomous mobility being developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and GDRS. Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA) $64 million, eight-year program supported by ARL to develop and test the fundamental technology required to develop highly capable, near autonomous unmanned systems.

GoldenEye OAV
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EYES ABOVE ENEMY LINES

The world leader in tactical robotics, GDRS has successfully tackled all the issues of supportability, deployment, peripheral functions, interface requirements, and software systems, for remotely managing unmanned autonomous assets.
For more information contact: Matt Hutchison Vice President, Tactical Systems Aurora Flight Sciences 9950 Wakeman Drive Manassas, VA 20110 Tel: 703.369.3663 Fax: 703.369.4514 Web: www.aurora.aero Barbara Lindauer Vice President, Business Development General Dynamics Robotic Systems 1234 Tech Court Westminster, Maryland 21157 Tel: 410.876.9200 Fax: 410.876.9470 Web: www.gdrs.com

Throughout the history of warfare, holding the high ground has been crucial. The Soldier who holds the high ground can locate the enemy and maintain a total picture of the battle. The GoldenEyeTM OAV program is intended to develop the modern day equivalent of an eye in the sky, enabling our troops to know where the enemy is and what it is doing to see first, one of the critical capabilities envisioned by the Armys transformative FCS vision. The Aurora Flight Sciences and General Dynamics Robotic Systems (GDRS) Team GoldenEye has taken on the challenge. The GoldenEyeTM OAV is an innovative ducted fan aircraft. It takes off and lands vertically. It hovers and can transition to forward flight at higher speeds. Designed to minimize acoustic signature, its stable platform design can be transported by HMMWV and deployed in the field without the need for a runway. It can be sent quietly behind enemy lines, using its cameras to monitor troops, assets or even individuals. Flying down streets in an urban environment, the GoldenEyeTM OAV can maneuver between buildings and peer inside windows with its sensors. In fact, it is designed to land atop a building and continue tracking individuals while conserving fuel, carrying out the perch and stare capability. Used for diverse missions such as complex environment reconnaissance and surveillance, path-finding for ground vehicles (both robotic and manned), maneuver force protection and targeting for non-line-of-sight fire operations, the GoldenEyeTM OAV is operat-

ed remotely using a real-world integrated command and control system designed by GDRS. A prototype OAV-II vehicle platform will demonstrate advanced sensors for situational awareness and target designation; a nonline-of-sight networked communications capability; and collision avoidance of buildings, trees and wires prevalent in urban environments. The prototype vehicle will be designed to provide small combat units with a capability to perform reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) missions of up to two hours duration and at ranges of tens of kilometers. The OAV-II program is part of a continuing joint DARPA/Army effort to develop ducted fan air vehicles and associated technologies for UAV systems that can be owned and operated by Brigade Combat Teams. GDRS is teamed with Aurora to design the complex technologies of the OAVs collision avoidance system, ground control station, sensor systems and data links, non-line-of-sight communications, and a manned ground vehicle interface (MGVI). An MGVI is modular equipment that attaches to a vehicle such as a HMMWV, and facilitates launch, recovery and transportation. The operation of UAVs is a natural extension of many of the same applications for unmanned ground vehicles that GDRS has pioneered: reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition (RSTA); path-finding; and data communication. UAV operations also pose many of the same challenges as unmanned ground vehicles, such as their integration into the human fighting force and their ability to navigate autonomously on the battlefield.