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Unmanned Systems

Four Companies Now Will Compete to Replace Army Shadow Drones

Friday, July 26th, 2019

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Four Companies Now Will Compete to Replace Army Shadow Drones

Textron's RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system. (Textron)

Four companies now will compete to build a replacement for the U.S. Army’s RQ-7 Shadow drone after the service added another two challengers to the $100 million program. The Army announced July 24 that Arcturus UAV of Rohnert Park, Calif., and Ashburn, Va.-based L3Harris Technologies [LHX] would join Textron [TXT] subsidiary AAI Corp. and Martin UAV to compete for each order of the firm-fixed-price procurement contract running through 2022, with a $99.5 million ceiling cap for the award. Eleven total…

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