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Merlin Receives $8.9 Million for C-130J Autonomous Flight Program
Why it’s here: A USSOCOM-funded task order for autonomous flight on a military transport aircraft is a defense autonomy program with federal contracting and airworthiness/cybersecurity authorization steps, squarely within Robotics and Defense Tech scope.
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4d agoAVwebMerlin Receives $8.9 Million for C-130J Autonomous Flight ProgramUSSOCOM awarded Merlin an $8.9 million task order to continue developing the Merlin Pilot autonomous flight system for the C-130J.1 outletRoboticsDefense3 linked
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- Merlin Pilot
- C-130J Super Hercules