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Navy/USMC

Navy PEO Explains Importance Of Unmanned Sensors, New Initiative To Add Capabilities Faster

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

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National Harbor, Md. - The Navy’s program executive officer (PEO) for unmanned aviation and strike weapons told a conference here about the specific challenge his office has in providing unmanned assets and highlighted the importance of a new initiative to add new capabilities faster than normal.Rear Adm. Mark Darrah, PEO, Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (U&W), said his office is still learning some of the challenges and opportunities of unmanned systems in various domains. They provide attributes like persistence, expendability,…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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