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Thursday, August 30, 2012

UK issues urgent call for maritime UAS deal

RFA Black Rover |The UK Ministry of Defence was due to receive responses by 28 August from contractors interested in bidding for a maritime unmanned air system deal worth £40 million ($63 million).

Dubbed "MarUAS", the project seeks a commercial off-the-shelf design capable of meeting an urgent operational requirement to deliver persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) cover when deployed from a naval vessel.

To be provided as a contractor-owned, contractor-operated system, the UAS should have a loiter time of 8h while operating 111km (60nm) from its launch platform, the UK's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation says.

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