Air Force Developing Long-Term Strategy For Small Unmanned Aircraft

By James Drew / September 16, 2014 at 4:30 PM
The Air Force's remotely piloted aircraft capabilities division is developing a long-term strategy to guide the development of small unmanned aircraft systems and the team is looking to academia and industry for input, according to the head of that office. Col. Brandon Baker, a former Global Hawk pilot, told a Sept. 15 panel at the Air Force Association's annual Air and Space Conference in Washington that continued development of RPAs, and particularly small unmanned aircraft, must continue despite ongoing fiscal...

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