By Geoff Fein The Navy's effort to develop an aircraft carrier based unmanned combat aircraft system (UCAS) is absolutely critical to the service, but the Navy must demonstrate that the system can be safely integrated onto a ship and it must have the support of congress and the Pentagon for UCAS to survive, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). The Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator (UCAS-D) and the eventual follow-on, Navy (N)-UCAS, face a rough road,…
Navy UCAS Vital For Future Threats, But Lack of Support Could Doom Effort
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