US Army seeks industry support to prepare acquisitions of Group 4+ UAVs
US Army MQ-1 Gray Eagle. (Photo: US Army)
The US Army is keen to hear about vendor designs, strategies and potential hardware and software solutions to inform requirements for procurement efforts.
The US Army is conducting market research to gather industry information about Group 4+ (larger) short/vertical takeoff and landing (S/VTOL) uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). The service is interested in current and future vendor designs and strategies and potential hardware and software solutions to inform requirements for acquisition and development programmes.
The army wants to identify runway-independent drones for division formations. The UAVs should feature a SWaP-C design and offer modularity and interoperability for advanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions in denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environments that require deep targeting and massing effects.
Under this effort, the branch issued
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