SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman is joining a U.S. government and industry working group to define a common unmanned aircraft system control station architecture.
The U.S. Navy contract, sponsored by the Unmanned Warfare Office of the Office Secretary of Defense, is worth $3.3 million.
The Unmanned Aircraft System Control Segment Architecture Working Group is an open technical standards committee consisting of industry and government representatives from each UAS program of record, several emerging UAS programs and small businesses.
The objective of the group is to define a common UAS control station architecture based on standard data models and service interface definitions to enable interoperability, scalability and adaptability of UAS ground stations.
"Northrop Grumman has supported the UCS architecture development process with our more than 60 years' experience in unmanned systems and looks forward to the deeper level of involvement this contract enables," said Mike Leahy, common mission management system program manager for the company's Aerospace Systems sector. "The UCS contract will be fully integrated into our broader efforts to increase the level of interoperability and commonality across all our UAS programs."
