Air Force ready to approach
industry for enabling
technologies in affordable
attack drones
June 12, 2015
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 12 June 2015. U.S. Air Force
researchers are notifying industry of an upcoming project to develop
many inexpensive, disposable unmanned attack drones for long-range,
high-speed attack missions in remote regions.
Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio, are notifying industry of the upcoming Low-Cost
Attritable Aircraft Technology project.
A formal broad-agency announcement for this program,
BAA-AFRL-RQKP-2015-0004, will be issued in the near future,
researchers say. No further information about when the solicitation
will be issued is available.
The goal is to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology that can
lend itself to large-scale aerial attacks in remote regions where forward
basing is difficult or impossible, researchers say.
For this kind of engagement, Air Force researchers want enabling
technologies foraffordable UAVs able to carry out long-range and
high-speed attacks that are of sufficiently low cost that loss of these
aircraft in battle could be tolerated, researchers say.
Tight defense budgets and many kinds of military threats throughout the
world make it imperative for the Air Force to make dramatic reductions
in the costs of attack UAVs to bring mass to the engagement, and increase
defensive costs to potential adversaries.
Researchers want to trade the relatively high costs of UAV performance,
design life, reliability, and maintainability for low-cost attritable aircraft
intended for reuse with limited life and number of sorties.
The goal of this program is to establish a benchmark, concluding in a
flight demonstration that will test the bounds of what can be accomplished
in a short time to establish a baseline system cost against a notional set
of strike vehicle requirements, researchers say. Air Force officials expect to
award one 30-month contract worth about $7.5 million.
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