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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Four bidders pursue UK maritime UAS deal

ScanEagle UAV |Four contractors have been invited to tender for an initially two-year requirement to provide the UK with a maritime unmanned air system capability to be deployed from Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels.

Boeing Defence UK, Cassidian, Lockheed Martin UK Integrated Systems and Qinetiq have been asked to contest the urgent operational requirement (UOR) deal for a contractor-owned, contractor-operated service, the Ministry of Defence says.

The companies are required to reply to a mid-November invitation to tender by 18 December, with the MoD expecting to issue a contract to one of the bidders in early February 2013.

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