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Coast Guard Solicits For New UAS Services Aboard Cutters

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 14th, 2023

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Coast Guard Solicits For New UAS Services Aboard Cutters

A ScanEagle sUAS and launcher sit on the flight deck of the Coast Guard National Security Cutter Stratton. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Mark Barney.

The Coast Guard this week issued a Request for Proposals for a new contract to provide contractor-owned and operated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services aboard its larger cutters. The Maritime UAS services contract will replace one the Coast Guard currently has with Boeing’s [BA] Insitu business unit, which provides and operates its ScanEagle UAS systems aboard the service’s fleet of 420-foot high-endurance national security cutters (NSCs). The MUAS contract would include the NSCs and possibly expand the UAS services to…

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