The Navy's Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike fixed-wing aircraft will be controlled from a land-based station, possibly refueled in the air and carry out attacks only under direct human control, the service said in a broad agency announcement issued today. The BAA, posted on Federal Business Opportunities by Naval Air Systems Command, envisions a platform that would allow an aircraft carrier to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while simultaneously...
