AIR FORCE, DARPA DEVELOPING UNMANNED AIRSHIP THAT CAN FLY FOR DECADE

/ March 20, 2009 at 5:00 AM
The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plan to award a contract "in the next few months" for the development of a stratospheric airship that can simultaneously track airborne and ground targets in flights lasting upward of 10 years, according to a DARPA spokeswoman. The unmanned airship program -- Integrated Sensor is Structure, or ISIS for short -- is "on the cusp" of going into its third stage, DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker said in a March 16...

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