US Awards Over $160Mln In Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Contracts - Pentagon

Faizan Hashmi Published August 22, 2018 | 04:39 AM

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd August, 2018) The US military awarded two contracts worth roughly $162 million combined to build unmanned aerial vehicles for the United States and the government of Poland, the Defense Department said in a press release.

"Insitu Inc.

, Bingen, Washington, is awarded a $53,965,378 firm-fixed-price contract to procure four full-rate production, Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems and eight attrition air vehicles; seven for the Marine Corps and one for the government of Poland," the release said on Tuesday.

California-based Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc. won the other contract worth some $108.9 million for drone production, the release added.

Insitu will also provide control stations, launch and recovery equipment, shipboard equipment kits as well as systems engineering and program management support, the release added.