Army Zeroes in on Expendable Drone Needs for Future Buys

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Army zeroes in on expendable drone needs for future buys

NASHVILLE, Tenn. − The U.S. Army is close to establishing a set of requirements for purpose-built expendable drones it will buy in the future, according to the service‘s project manager for unmanned aircraft systems.The service recently released a market survey looking for what it’s calling Purpose-Built, Attritable Systems, or PBAS, and is headed into an Army Requirements Oversight Council review of the requirements sometime in June, Col. Danie…

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