General Atomics Awarded $99M Army UAS Logistics Support Contract

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a potential $200 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to integrate and test modified medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles. GA-ASI will install Special Operations Forces peculiar modifications into the MQ-9 and MQ-1C UAVs, produce aircraft modification kits and conduct analysis and studies to inform future SOF-p

RTX (NYSE: RTX), formerly Raytheon Technologies, has secured a potential $118 million contract from the U.S. Army to update a common sensor payload for MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems, Inside Defense reported Wednesday. Dennis Teefy, project director for the Army’s sensors aerial intelligence, said the updated CSP system features a new camera with short-wave

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business tested a Dynetics-built small glide munition aboard a long-range variant of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system during a flight demonstration at a military test range in California.