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Winning STUAS Bid Could Possibly See Early Deployment

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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

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With its recent release of the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS)/Tier II request for proposal (RFP), the Navy is hoping to find a mature capability that could possibly be deployed earlier than a normal development program, according to a service official. "We don't expect to be starting from a clean sheet of paper...from scratch. We expect industry has a fairly mature system," Rear Adm. Bill Shannon, program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons, recently told sister publication…

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