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Triton On Track For Early Operational Capability This Year, Navy Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 9th, 2018

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Triton On Track For Early Operational Capability This Year, Navy Official Says

The Triton arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Sept. 18, 2014. Photo: U.S. Navy

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Navy’s new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for broad area maritime surveillance will achieve early operational capability later this year on schedule at a forward operating base in Guam, a service official said on Monday.The early operating capability will consist of two aircraft with a baseline sensor capability and the initial operating capability, scheduled for 2021, will include four aircraft with a multi-intelligence sensor suite that brings the sensor suite up to a top secret signals intelligence architecture,…

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