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Army Plans Addition of Ka Band for Gray Eagle to Bolster Communications

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Army Plans Addition of Ka Band for Gray Eagle to Bolster Communications

The Army plans to add Ka-band satellite communications capability for its fleet of General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs, the military service said on Aug. 13. General Atomics is to award a contract for the Ka-band integration in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, a timeline that means that the contract award could come by the end of this year. Todd Smith, the U.S. Army deputy project manager for PEO Aviation's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office in Huntsville, Ala., said…

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