DOT&E says Fire Scout is 'not operationally effective,' reveals Navy created 'tiger team'

By Justin Katz / February 4, 2020 at 5:08 PM
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include statements from the Navy and Northrop Grumman.) The Pentagon's chief weapons testers say both they and the Navy have assessed a new unmanned aircraft as "not operationally effective, not operationally suitable, and not cyber survivable," and have revealed the service created a "tiger team" to fix those issues. "Primary degraders that led to this assessment included the overall air vehicle reliability, image quality and system performance of the BRITE Star...

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