Pentagon Crafting New UAV Plan

Credit: U.S. AIR FORCE
The U.S. industrial base for unmanned systems is “not mature,” senior Defense Dept. officials say. “We are not as thick as we’d like to be as far as our industrial base is concerned,” warns Ellen Purdy, enterprise director for joint ground robotics programs in the Pentagon’s procurement office. “We...

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