Lockheed Martin acquired the pioneer Chandler / May company in low-profile UAVs

Lockheed Martin has announced the acquisition of Chandler / May Inc. a developer and manufacturer of specialized unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition, the company develops and manufactures fully integrated mission-critical systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. aviation systems (BAS). As a subcontractor to AAI, Chandler / May has supplied hundreds of integrated command and control kits and ground handheld control stations as part of the US unmanned aircraft systems program. It has also produced over 2200 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the Desert Hawk UAV, commissioned by Lockheed Martin. Another system developed by Chandler / May is the unobtrusive Fury UAV, which resembles a flying wing, as well as the SharkFin Mission & Flight Control System and Tactical Air Vehicle Control System (TACS) ground control station.

Lockheed Martin has two main units dealing with unmanned aerial systems - Skunk Works, focused on black programs and Rapid Prototyping and Mission Systems & Sensors (MS2) units. Chandler / May will officially become part of the Mission Systems & Sensors division, "a division that has already gained experience with other unmanned systems, including K-MAX unmanned helicopters, Desert Hawk UAVs and Persistent Threat Detection System, PTDS balloons," according to the corporate ad. MS2 also oversees the unmanned aircraft systems firm Procerus acquired by Lockheed Martin in January 2012.

UAV Fury 1500. Photo: Tamir Eshel, Defense-Update

"This acquisition extends our ability to meet the growing needs of our customers in advanced unmanned systems for C4ISR tasks (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence- command, control, communications, computers, reconnaissance, surveillance and reconnaissance), says Bob Stevens ( Bob Stevens), Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO. This acquisition is consistent with our goal of maintaining a portfolio of technologically advanced features that will give our customers and our shareholders additional value. "

Chandler / May Inc. is a privately owned company whose branches are currently located in Huntsville, Alabama and San Luis Obispo, California. "Integration with Lockheed Martin is a logical step towards expanding our current offerings and provides opportunities to attract additional customers," says Jesse May, President of Chandler / May Inc. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed and are not material to the economic performance of Lockheed Martin.

Comments

[haron]

Lockheed very much resembles a monopoly concern from films about the future, when one company rules the world - there is some similarity.
As I understand it, the antitrust law does not apply to this sphere, and although there is a Boeing, it’s not sure that they do not cooperate on global issues.
Unlike the oil business or the computer business, which can flourish in peacetime, Lockheed will flourish only when there is Syria, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan ... and so on. in current performance.

[King]

It's high time to get used to the fact that the laws in the United States do not apply. and if they spread, then only under strong pressure from outside. under such as "Cuban missile crisis". unfortunately the United States in our time has no one to resist

[sv-sakh]

Do you think all these films are pure fantasy? and there is no world conspiracy? Are American Presidents Not Speaking Heads?
Unfortunately, the USA is the most terrible state of fantastic horror films ... Corporations ... Banks ... People no longer have value and have become "Resources".
Stop, and when did a person have value? Maybe nothing has ever changed?
The strong eats the weak and this is the only invariable order of things that has settled on earth since the first life.
You just need not to become that weak, that's all

[SSR]

Quote: sv-sakh

People no longer have value and have become "Resources".
Stop, and when did a person have value? Maybe nothing has ever changed?

People have always been a "resource / tool" and a renewable resource / tool and a resource / tool with different "characteristics" of the type: education, health.
Take the United States .. there is a "surplus" resource - an explosive resource (20-30 years) .... he sends this resource .... blah blah democracy.
Take China ... so he abolished taxes for the most explosive resource / instrument (peasants) and gives out taxes to everyone who leaves the country.
it's so simplistic .. because if you paint .. then you get a whole Talmud)))) In General, you can raise virgin lands and fly into space and trample in swamps and expand the territory .. but IMHA the best option is socialism and "from each according to his abilities - to each according to his needs ".
generally Pichalka.)))

[haron]

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Quote: sv-sakh

Are American Presidents Not Speaking Heads?

It seems like one of J. Kenedy's theories of calming down is a confirmation of this. He kind of tried not to be a "talking head" :)

[sv-sakh]

Do you think all these films are pure fantasy? and there is no world conspiracy? Are American Presidents Not Speaking Heads?
Unfortunately, the USA is the most terrible state of fantastic horror films ... Corporations ... Banks ... People no longer have value and have become "Resources".
Stop, and when did a person have value? Maybe nothing has ever changed?
The strong eats the weak and this is the only invariable order of things that has settled on earth since the first life.
You just need not to become that weak, that's all

[geptilshik]

Well, everything is fine, the cantor buys another. And then something like "... the concern is a monopolist from films about the future, when one company rules the world." Remember the USSR was one big military-industrial complex and nothing, we still live on those developments and discoveries. The fact that Lockheed and similar cantors only live in war is not true. The same Lockheed builds satellites, computer technology, etc. By the way, we have our own Lockheed - this is Russian Technologies, but Russian Technologies is .... another story