26-58007 Mobile Ground Control Station (MGCS) and Cargo Trailer for Drone Field Operations

Scope Summary

Question and Answer Number 1 (Q&A #1) Please see tender documents for (Q&A #1) 26-58007 Mobile Ground Control Station (MGCS) and Cargo Trailer for Drone Field Operations The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Centre for Drone Innovation (CDI), part of the Drone and Flight Autonomy Laboratory (DFAL), requires the design, integration, and delivery of a Mobile Ground Control Station (MGCS) and complementary enclosed cargo trailer (collectively referred to as the “MGCS System”). The MGCS System will support experimental flight data acquisition and processing in remote environments, and in-situ demonstrations of novel applications of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), counter-UAS technologies, and mobile sensor networks. It will support research activities in: • Concurrent multi-UAV operations, including ground robots; • Exploration and Mapping, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications; • Electronic Warfare (EW), Security, Counter-measures deployment, and drone threat mitigation; • BVLOS experimentation; and • AI/autonomy resea

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