KaZaK to support Boeing UAV weapons demo

WOBURN, Mass., March 9 (UPI) -- U.S. company Boeing selected KaZaK Composites Inc. to provide its airframe technologies supporting an unmanned airborne vehicle weapons program.

Composite engineering provider KaZaK, which has headquarters in Massachusetts, will provide Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems unit with its airframe solution for a UAV weapons demonstration program.

Boeing is working under the first phase of the UAV weapons program. KaZaK's airframe will provide electrical and other components with housing for the miniature weapon technology under development.

"The initial aspects of the design were developed under an small business innovative research contract," Steve Schoenholtz, KaZaK senior mechanical engineer working on the project, said in a statement.

"With modifications to the original design we can enable our advanced technology to meet the warfighters' needs in a variety of targets and also generate very low collateral damage."