By Geoff Fein As Insitu rolled the 1,000th ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) off its assembly line, the company was looking ahead to its bid for the Navy's small tactical drone and looking to expand its reach into the UAV market, a company official said. The Marine Corps has been using ScanEagle, a joint UAV effort between Insitu and Boeing [BA], in Iraq, and the platform is also deployed on about 20 Navy ships, Steve Sliwa, chief executive officer, Insitu,…
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