NASHVILLE — The Army plans to award vendors contracts in the next few months to experiment with “ultra long-range” launched effects that will ultimately outfit spy planes like the future High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), an Army senior official told Breaking Defense today.
Andrew Evans, director for the new Strategy & Transformation Office inside the G-2, said the initial set of awards are likely to be short-term experimentation contracts ahead of a planned demonstration later this year. Longer-term contracts for the effects, meant to fly up to 1,000 km (620 miles), are expected to follow next year, likely to go to more than one vendor.
“Everything we do currently in the future has to be teams-of-teams, and it has to be, I’ll call it, a…
more
Source breakingdefense.com
Terms of use and third-party services. More here.