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Homeland Security

Coast Guard Land-Based UAS Would Be Forward Deployed, Zukunft Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 3rd, 2017

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Coast Guard Land-Based UAS Would Be Forward Deployed, Zukunft Says

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul F. Zukunft. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

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…

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