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Navy/USMC

Navy’s Long-Awaited Draft RFP For UCLASS Shared With Industry–Not The Public

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

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Navy’s Long-Awaited Draft RFP For UCLASS Shared With Industry–Not The Public

The Navy's X-47B unmanned aircraft demonstrator (UCAS) designed for carrier operations and the precursor to UCLASS. Photo: U.S. Navy

The Navy submitted its long anticipated draft request for proposals for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) program on Thursday to four competing companies already conducting early designs for the aircraft, but the service did not publicly release the document. “The purpose of the draft RFP is to solicit industry to design, develop, assemble, deliver, test and integrate the air segment into the UCLASS system,” said Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Cosgrove said…

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