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Abstract : The US Army has plans to deploy a dedicated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system at every echelon in order to provide responsive support to the battlefield commanders. However, there are disadvantages to fielding such a large number of different and separately controlled vehicles. This research addresses one key part of this issue of selecting the right mix of UAV systems: How shall a company be supported? We consider two alternatives for the company commander, loosely based on systems currently under development: (1) the Organic system, which consists of two vehicle-transported VTOL vehicles of ~50 kg each assigned to each company and flying missions when needed; and (2) the Handoff system, a 100-200 kg vehicle in the air constantly during operations, maintained and launched at the battalion level, but handed off as needed to the companies, which have Level IV control capability. We focus on performance measures that are strongly affected by the architecture and on finding
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Abstract : The US Army has plans to deploy a dedicated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system at every echelon in order to provide responsive support to the battlefield commanders. However, there are disadvantages to fielding such a large number of different and separately controlled vehicles. This research addresses one key part of this issue of selecting the right mix of UAV systems: How shall a company be supported? We consider two alternatives for the company commander, loosely based on systems currently under development: (1) the Organic system, which consists of two vehicle-transported VTOL vehicles of ~50 kg each assigned to each company and flying missions when needed; and (2) the Handoff system, a 100-200 kg vehicle in the air constantly during operations, maintained and launched at the battalion level, but handed off as needed to the companies, which have Level IV control capability. We focus on performance measures that are strongly affected by the architecture and on finding
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