Unmanned Systems
The NCCO’s wealth of real operating environments make it the center of excellence for unmanned systems, sensors, and payload development, integration, testing and training — with a focus on the strategic, tactical, and scientific utilization of unmanned systems, and a recognition of the strategic value these systems offer the defense, intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security and scientific communities. Indiana’s assets include the only brick and mortar full scale urban environment where UAS can operate with full-spectrum sensor capabilities.
With unmanned aerial systems (UAS) comprising a rapidly growing portion of the military budget, and with Congress encouraging the development of UAS platforms, finding the absolute optimal locations for the development, testing, fielding and crew training needs of these incredible systems has become more critical than ever.