Army picks Nevada-based company for spy plane contract that has $1B ceiling

By Nickolai Sukharev / August 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM
A Nevada-based company will build the Army's newest spy plane for $94 million, a program with the potential of reaching about $1 billion to enhance its aerial surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, the service announced Thursday. Awarded as a 12-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, Sierra Nevada Corp. will produce the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) for $93.5 million, an aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system carried aboard a Bombardier Global Express 6500, a 99-foot, twin-engine aircraft used as a business...

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