Chad is the editor of AINalerts, AIN's daily business aviation newsletter, and is also the news editor at AIN Media Group.&nbsp;He has been writing about aviation, with an emphasis on business aviation, since 1994. Chad started his writing career at The Avion,&nbsp;the&nbsp;student newspaper at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, serving as editor-in-chief before graduating with a bachelor's in aeronautical science. After a stint as managing editor at Professional Pilot&nbsp;magazine, he joined&nbsp;AIN in late 1998. Chad holds a commercial pilot certificated with instrument and multi-engine ratings, and he also is a CFI/CFII. He lives and works from his home in Venice, Florida.

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Chad Trautvetter

Boeing has been awarded a three-year $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate technologies that enable multiple small unmanned aerial vehicles to coordinate with each other and a manned airborne control station to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Foxhunt multi-small unmanned aerial system cooperative control demonstration will leverage Boeing’s networked systems expertise and technology advancements.
“The focus of the Foxhunt program is the airborne control of a varied mix of unmanned aerial vehicles,” said Patrick Stokes of Boeing Research &amp; Technology, the company’s advanced, central research, technology and innovation organization that is managing the research project. “It’s part of a grander vision outlined by the Air Force Research Laboratory to include the air launch, command-and-control and airborne recovery of unmanned aerial systems–all from an airborne mother ship.”
Stokes said the unmanned aerial systems will be an extension of the manned mother ship’s sensor and weapon suites, improving situational awareness and intelligence, as well as surveillance and reconnaissance reach, allowing for safer stand-off distances.

Boeing To Demo Cooperative UAV Technologies for U.S. Air Force

Boeing has been awarded a three-year $9.8 million contract from the U.S.

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