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Army Plans Major Manned/Unmanned System Demonstration

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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

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The Army plans a major showcase of manned and unmanned systems next fall to showcase its efforts to build interoperable manned and unmanned systems, a top service official said. "We're going to have the single largest demonstration ever conducted of manned and unmanned systems," said Tim Owings, deputy project manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Army Program Executive Office for Aviation. Some years ago the service set out to build "the most interoperable fleet of unmanned systems ever fielded," he said in…

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