Air Force International Affairs Office Pushing For Policy Reform On RPA Exports

By James Drew / June 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM
The chief of the Air Force's international affairs office is pushing the U.S. government to implement a more relaxed export policy covering the sale of remotely piloted aircraft to foreign partners as a way of building regional capacity in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance domain. Heidi Grant, deputy under secretary of the Air Force for international affairs (SAF/IA), said her office has been working to address the "myth" -- believed by some legislators and personnel within the Defense and State...

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