Jane Edwards
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $35.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the third phase of a program that seeks to develop a removable kit prototype designed to automate aircraft’s co-piloting functions.
Sikorsky will produce and install prototypes on various types of aircraft for flight demonstrations under DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System program, the Defense Department said Friday.
The company will perform work in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Florida through February 2018 and will cost-share $14.4 million.
DARPA will cost-share $21.3 million in funds and obligate $3 million from research and development funds for fiscal 2016 and 2017 at the time of award.
The agency awarded the Phase III contract a month after Sikorsky and Aurora Flight Sciences developed and performed flight demonstrations of their robotic copilot platforms for the ALIAS program.
