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Coast Guard Contracts With Insitu For ScanEagle Services

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, June 27th, 2016

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Coast Guard Contracts With Insitu For ScanEagle Services

The ScanEagle is a catapult launched UAV. Photo: Boeing.

In a first for the Coast Guard, the service has awarded Boeing’s [BA] Insitu business unit a potential $12.3 million to begin operating a contractor-owned ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system aboard a National Security Cutter (NSC), the company said on Monday. The initial task order is for $4.5 million and includes operation, integration, maintenance and sparing of a ScanEagle for one year. The Coast Guard will own all of the surveillance data obtained through ScanEagle operations.The task order is potentially worth $12.3…

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