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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Insitu lands $41M Navy drone order

RQ-21A BlackjackInsitu, the Bingen-based manufacturer of drones, has landed a $41.07 million Navy contract to supply three RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems.

The company, a subsidiary of aerospace giant Boeing, will perform the contract work in Bingen and is expected to complete it in January 2016, the U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday.

The $41.07 million will pay for "the air vehicles, ground control stations, launch and recovery equipment, initial spares, and system engineering and program management," according to the Defense Department. Following federal acquisition rules, the contract wasn't competitively bid, the Defense Department said.

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