Army upgrading Unmanned Aerial Systems

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Army News Service, April 4, 2012) — The U.S. Army is moving along with a series of upgrades and technological improvements to its Unmanned Aerial System platforms, or UAS, Program Office officials said April 3. The UAS improvements are part of a broader effort to bring increased sensing and surveillance capability to deployed forces, officials said at the Army Aviation Association of America’s 2012 Professional Forum and Exhibition in Nashville. Some of the key activities include: – the addition of a new Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR Ground Moving Target Indicator sensor, known as GMTI, to the Gray Eagle UAS, – plans to build and deliver a new engine for the Shadow UAS, – and the development of a Universal Ground Control Station, or UGS, able to show video feeds from Gray Eagle, Shadow and Hunter UAS on a single system. At the same time, PM UAS is approaching these activities with a mind to finding efficiencies, lowering costs wherever possible and increasing competition among vendors as part of a broader strategy to implement the tenets of the Pentagon’s Better Buying Power program, said Richard Kretzschmar, deputy project manager, UAS. “The challenge we put across to our programs […]
Army upgrading Unmanned Aerial Systems