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Navy Awards Cargo UAS Contracts

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Friday, December 3rd, 2010

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By B.C. Kessner The Navy yesterday said it awarded two fixed-price contracts--$29.9 million to Boeing [BA]- Frontier Systems and $45.8 million Lockheed Martin [LMT]--for Cargo Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) services. "We are trying to get this much needed capability to the warfighter as quickly as possible," Rear Adm. Bill Shannon, Program Executive Officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, said in a statement. "By evaluating two different systems, we have the ability to accelerate development of technology and use it…

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