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Navy Procuring Aerovironment Blackwings For Sub-launched UAV Program

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Navy Procuring Aerovironment Blackwings For Sub-launched UAV Program
The Aerovironment Inc. Blackwing unmanned aerial vehicle to be used by the Navy in its submarine-launched unmanned aerial system (SLUAS) middle tier acquisition program. The UAV can be launched from underwater by a submarine. (Image: Aerovironment)

Naval Sea Systems Command intends to issue a sole source request for proposals for a two-year contract to Aerovironment, Inc. to procure up to 120 Blackwing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for use in the submarine-launched unmanned aerial system (SLUAS) middle tier acquisition program. Specifically, the Navy plans to procure the Blackwing 10C Electro-Optic (EO) and Infrared (IR)-equipped UAVs be used on “various Navy submarine platforms during the SLUAS Middle Tier Acquisition program execution,” the Navy said in a presolicitation notice published…

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