In the March 2008 story, "Demand on the Rise for Small
Hovering Drones," it was reported that Aurora Flight Sciences of
Manassas, Va., competed with BAE Systems and Honeywell for DARPA's
organic air vehicle program contract. It should have been noted that the
company later participated in another unmanned air vehicle--under the
Future Combat Systems program that the Army canceled last year.
The story stated that a Marine Corps unmanned air vehicle program
in which Aurora was competing was cancelled, but the program was
actually delayed. The analyst to whom the information was attributed,
Basil Papadales, was misquoted. Additionally, the story stated that
ducted-fan hovering UAVs had suffered a string of program failures, but
did not clearly explain that the performance problems occurred when the
vehicles were first developed a decade ago and have since been resolved.
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