Army $4.4B UPL warns of FTUAS, Chinook impacts

By Jaspreet Gill / June 2, 2021 at 9:26 AM
The Army has sent Congress a $4.4 billion unfunded priorities list for fiscal year 2022 that includes money for the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System effort and the Chinook helicopter, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense . The service wants a total of $79 million for the FTUAS effort, the planned replacement for the currently fielded Textron RQ-7B Shadow drone. In 2019, soldiers from five brigade combat teams were chosen to assess drones from four different vendors through...

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