
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The Coast Guard wants to obtain its own fleet of land-based, forward-deployed, long-range unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to give persistent surveillance capability in the maritime environment, Adm. Paul Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard, said on Monday.Zukunft last month in the annual State of the Coast Guard address said the service needs to acquire land-based UAS “in a meaningful way.” He told Defense Daily on Monday at the annual Navy League Sea Air Space conference that these UAS…