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Farnborough: UCLASS final RfP imminent

14th July 2014 - 12:15 GMT | by Andrew White in Farnborough

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The US DoD is expected to release the final Request for Proposal (RfP) for its Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) programme within the next fortnight, US Navy officials have revealed.

Speaking to the media at the Farnborough International Airshow on 14 July, USN PEO U&W, RAdm Mat Winter said the final RfP would be released shortly to the four vendors which include Lockheed Martin, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

However, he stressed the RfP would not be released until the ‘correct design requirements’ had been agreed across the board.

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