
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…