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AUVSI 2013: USN reveals UCLASS development path

16th August 2013 - 14:30 GMT | by Beth Stevenson in Washington, DC

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The programme manager for the US Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) programme has announced that a draft RfP will be launched in September in anticipation of a final draft next year.

RADM Mat Winter said that the final RfP for the future carrier-based ISTAR UAS is expected to be released after an industry day at the end of the year that will work to assess requirements.

‘We are releasing our draft RfP in September,’ he told the AUVSI Unmanned Systems conference in Washington, DC. ‘It will go out, be a full and open competition, then go

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