US Navy carrier ground control station conducts ‘first live control of a UAV’

Published on November 8, 2024
The US Navy (USN) used its MD-5 Ground Control Station (GCS) with Lockheed Martin’s MDCX autonomy platform to control a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) MQ-20 Avenger UAS

GA-ASI, the USN and Lockheed Martin have used the navy’s MD-5 Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) for the first time to control GA-ASI’s MQ-20 Avenger UAS using Lockheed Martin’s MDCX autonomy platform.

This flight was the first time a GA-ASI UAS completed bi-directional communications using the UMCS operation codes while performing autonomous behaviour.

The effort saw the platform perform commanded autonomy manoeuvres using a proliferated low-earth orbit (PLEO) datalink

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