I've been calling around all day to find this out, but so far no luck. Maybe somebody reading the blog can help me. I am reliably informed that NAVAIR received six bids for the STUAS/Tier II contract when the solicitation period closed on 9 June. I know for a fact that bids came in from AAI Corp with the Aerosonde Mk 5, Boeing/Insitu with the Integrator and Raytheon/Swift Engineering with the KillerBee-4.
I strongly suspect bids were submitted from UAV Dynamics (a new General Dynamics/Elbit Systems joint venture) with an unknown aircraft and Aurora Flight Sciences (possibly partnered with Northrop Grumman) with the Golden-Eye 80.
So who is the mysterious sixth bidder? I have three guesses: BAE Systems with a recently acquired Advanced Ceramics Research aircraft, Lockheed Martin with a Skunk Works-developed vehicle or Stark Aerospace/Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) with another aircraft.
Who wants to make a guess?
I strongly suspect bids were submitted from UAV Dynamics (a new General Dynamics/Elbit Systems joint venture) with an unknown aircraft and Aurora Flight Sciences (possibly partnered with Northrop Grumman) with the Golden-Eye 80.
So who is the mysterious sixth bidder? I have three guesses: BAE Systems with a recently acquired Advanced Ceramics Research aircraft, Lockheed Martin with a Skunk Works-developed vehicle or Stark Aerospace/Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) with another aircraft.
Who wants to make a guess?
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