Boeing subsidiary Insitu has won a contract to compete for aerial surveillance contracts with the U.S Navy and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC).
The firm will deploy its ScanEagle and Integrator uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to offer intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) services under a Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated (COCO) model.
As per a recent press statement: “Insitu will compete with other selected partners for task orders with both ScanEagle and Integrator UAS, offering these customers unparalleled flexibility in capability, range, endurance, and operational profiles.”
Insitu CEO Diane Rose commented: “We have been providing ISR services to the USN since 2005 and the USMC since 2004… The choice between two platforms offers our important U.S. Government customers the ultimate mission flexibility.
“We’ve incorporated our 20+ years’ experience working with the Navy and Marines into the feature sets on our UAS to ensure they offer the most robust maritime operational capability for their unique ISR needs.”
ScanEagle and Integrator are both extended-range vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platforms; Integrator has an endurance of up to 27.5 hours, and can travel up to 2,000 nautical miles point to point, or spend 13 hours on station at 500 nm performing ISR.
The firm added: “With 1,000+ potential configurations, Integrator and ScanEagle offer truly flexible multi-domain, multi-intelligence operations and can be equipped with AI-enabled, multi-spectral, multi-sensor payload packages, as well as electronic warfare, communications relay, hyper-spectral wide area search, targeting, and kinetic options.”
As per the firm, Insitu UAS have operated from over 45 different ship classes and land sites across six continents, and have been sold to 35+ military customers.
- You can read more details on the Insitu website