Insitu wins Navy UAS support contract

Insitu has been awarded a $9.8 million Navy contract to support the ScanEagle small, long-endurance, low-altitude unmanned aircraft system.

Under the Naval Air Systems Command contract, Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, will provide “intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance services in support of maritime operations, including operations and maintenance of the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems and real-time electro-optical imagery and infrared imagery,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The work will be performed in the Pacific theater. It is scheduled to be completed by March 2021.

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