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Coast Guard Releases RFP for Small UAS for National Security Cutters

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

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The Coast Guard this month issued a solicitation for contractor provided surveillance services using small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) aboard the entire fleet of National Security Cutters (NSCs).The commercially-acquired services include surveillance, detection, classification and identification of a wide range of targets using the ship-based sUAS systems, according to the Feb. 7 Request for Proposal (RFP). The unmanned systems will provide real-time imagery, data, target illumination, related communications and potentially other capabilities to the NSC and other “government assets,” the…

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