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Homeland Security

Coast Guard Surveys Market For Land-Based, Long-Range UAS

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 30th, 2017

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Coast Guard Surveys Market For Land-Based, Long-Range UAS

A General Atomics Predator. Photo: General Atomics

The Coast Guard on Wednesday issued a Request for Information for land-based high-endurance drone aircraft to help it examine the potential of these systems to patrol vast ocean areas for illegal drug shipments.Earlier this year Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said the service wants to obtain land-based, forward-deployed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to patrol the transit zones in the Eastern Pacific, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Traffickers, typically operating out of Columbia in South America, use ships to…

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