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Army Looks For New, Low Cost Drones

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

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By June 30, the Army wants to hear from interested vendors who can develop low-cost drones and provide the documentation/source code to run Six Degrees of Freedom simulation. In a Request for Information posted May 10 on www.fbo.gov and revised May 21, the Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Targets Management Office said it was interested in information on a high-speed aerial target to replace the MQM-107. The office is interested in targets that provide…

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