The Navy will issue a draft request for proposals for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Strike and Surveillance aircraft "soon," with a full RFP to come out sometime in 2013, a service official said last week. Patrick Buckley, deputy program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons, said on Nov. 8 that the Navy is "in the final stages of nailing down the requirements." At a conference hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association in Springfield, VA, he added that...
