EPX To Be Replaced By Family Of Systems; P-8 Likely Not One Of Them

By Cid Standifer / January 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM
The Navy is planning to fill the gap left by the cancellation of the EPX spy plane program with a family of systems that may include surface ships but is not likely to feature the P-8, according to the head of the service's intelligence directorate. Vice Adm. Jack Dorsett told reporters at a Defense Writers Group breakfast today that the family-of-systems approach is consistent with the Navy's information dominance strategy, which mandates that every platform have a sensor and every...

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