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DARPA ANCILLARY X-Plane
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2025
9 October The Nomad will serve both defence and civilian organisations worldwide.

Sikorsky expands Nomad family of hybrid-electric VTOLs

Designed to blend helicopter agility with fixed-wing range, the hybrid-electric Nomad family advances autonomous flight across defence and civilian domains.

26 June

ReleaseAV’s Wildcat reaches key milestones in DARPA’s ANCILLARY program’s EVADE demonstration

10 March

ReleaseSikorsky successfully flies rotor blown wing UAS in helicopter and airplane modes

2024
29 May ANCILLARY design concept renderings from all six performers, clockwise from lower left: Sikorsky, Karem Aircraft, Griffon Aerospace, Method Aeronautics, AeroVironment and Northrop Grumman.

DARPA shows concepts for the future of VTOL uncrewed aerial systems

In Phase Ib, six companies - AeroVironment, Griffon Aerospace, Karem Aircraft, Method Aeronautics, Northrop Grumman and Sikorsky - will mature their X-plane designs.

28 May

ReleaseAV to develop its Wildcat autonomous VTOL UAS for DARPA’s ANCILLARY program

22 May

ReleaseNorthrop Grumman's autonomous VTOL X-Plane advances to next design phase for DARPA

22 May

ReleaseSikorsky flight-tests scalable 'rotor blown wing' UAS for DARPA project

2023
19 July The UAS would be able to launch and recover from ship flight decks and small austere land locations in adverse weather without additional infrastructure equipment.

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with naval VTOL design

Northrop Grumman has been entrusted with the task to design an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system capable of operating from a moving Navy ship at sea.

22 June

ReleaseANCILLARY project selects teams to develop initial concepts for VTOL X-Plane