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Unmanned Systems

MQ-9A Reaper Included in ARIES Contract for AFRICOM Reconnaissance Support

Frank Wolfe

Monday, November 14th, 2022

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MQ-9A Reaper Included in ARIES Contract for AFRICOM Reconnaissance Support

An MQ-9A Reaper with eight AGM-114 Hellfire missiles sits on the flight line before a September, 2020 test at Creech AFB, Nev. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper is included in a possibly $2.3 billion, seven-year contract awarded last month to an SMX team for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Atomics said on Nov. 14. The Reaper "will continue to support prime contractor SMX who was recently awarded a task order to provide [AFRICOM] Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) mission and intelligence analysis operations. GA-ASI is a major subcontractor to SMX for the AFRICOM Reconnaissance Intelligence Exploitation Services (ARIES) task order with an estimated value…

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