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CBP Continues To Explore Small UAS Options

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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest operator of long-endurance, high-altitude Predator unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) except for the Air Force, continues to look at how smaller unmanned systems can be used by its special operations teams, an agency official tells sister publication Defense Daily. The agency previously procured two hand-launched Wasp Micro Air Vehicles off an Army contract that it tested and are currently deployed with its special force-type operators, but the Border Patrol would like a different set…

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