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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. The connections he made through the organization helped him land internships at leading laboratories, starting him on his career path. The IEEE connections helped him get his first job.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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military took hold of the concept, and in its hands, those simple drones morphed into Predators and Reapers , bomber-size machines that flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and each cost millions of dollars (if not tens of millions). But a technologically powerful country needn’t count the cost; the United States certainly didn’t. “We

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