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McCain: Prototyping Effort Meant to Push the Navy to Change UCLASS Requirements

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

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McCain: Prototyping Effort Meant to Push the Navy to Change UCLASS Requirements

The X-47B. Photo: U.S. Navy

For years, the Navy and Congress have been at odds over the service’s future carrier-based drone, called the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS). But lawmakers want to ensure the Pentagon structures UCLASS requirements in a way they approve of, and a proposal unveiled last week in the Senate Armed Service Committee’s markup of the 2016 defense authorization bill was specifically targeted to do just that, its chairman said.The committee authorized $375 million for a competitive prototyping effort that…

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