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Coast Guard Releases Unmanned Systems Strategy; Expects To Contract For Services

Coast Guard Releases Unmanned Systems Strategy; Expects To Contract For Services
Coast Guard Cutter Stratton's Long-Range Interceptor-II cutter boat approaches a suspected drug smuggling vessel several hundred miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, Sept. 6, 2017, recorded by the ScanEagle small UAS on board the cutter. U.S. Coast Guard graphic.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Coast Guard this week released its first strategy for unmanned systems (UxS), laying out a vision for the capabilities the service will need in the coming decade and how it expects to obtain them. In addition to employing UxS in the air, sea and subsurface domains, the U.S. Coast Guard Unmanned Systems Strategic Plan also says the service will need capabilities to counter-UxS used for illicit purposes and develop a regulatory framework for the safe and lawful…

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