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US Coast Guard ultimately selects ScanEagle for cutters

7th June 2018 - 16:51 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in London

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The US Coast Guard (USCG) has finally announced that the Insitu ScanEagle will be used to fulfil the small UAS requirement for its National Security Cutters.

Announced on 7 June the installations of sUAS capability on NSCs are planned at a rate of about two per year. Total value of the contract including the seven option years is approximately $117 million.

The USCG will be using a contractor-owned contractor-operated (COCO) procurement strategy. Insitu has been working on the programme for nine years, awaiting a final contract.

VADM John Currier (ret), 28th vice commandant of the USCG, now working with Insitu,

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