
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in late March awarded General Atomics a potential $527.6 million contract to provide operations and maintenance services and work for the agency’s fleet of MQ-9 Predator and Guardian drones as well as funding for a new aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is the prime contractor for the MQ-9, which it has supplied to CBP beginning in 2005. The award is for up to five years. CBP operates a fleet of nine MQ-9s, seven that are…