Theiss Aviation, Inc. has been awarded a contract to assist the Air Force Research Laboratories in achieving their near-term small UAV goals. By 2015, AFRL intends to demonstrate a biomimetic bird-sized UAV platform with the capability of sensing weapons of mass destruction, and semi-autonomous operations for a week. 
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