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European Defence Agency-EC To Consider Joint UAV Funding

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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

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The European Defence Agency (EDA) and the European Commission (EC) conference on unmanned aircraft systems plans to consider closer cooperation in a common European way forward. "The tasking given by the EDA's Steering Board in Ministers of Defence formation, in April this year, is to prepare and propose a Joint Investment program on Unmanned Aircraft Systems for political launch in autumn this year. The target is clear; we want to address the remaining technological challenges for UAS Air Traffic Insertion…

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