It is a small step, but NavyRecognition is reporting that the Coast Guard has contracted with Insitu to provide one Bertholf class National Security Cutter with Scan Eagle UAS.
The Coast Guard procured the necessary services through a pre-existing multiple award contract executed by Naval Air Systems Command. The initial $4.5-million task order includes operation, integration, maintenance and sparing of a contractor-owned sUAS on one NSC for one year. The task order has a total potential value of $12.3 million that includes options for deployment of and data from prototype sUAS capability for up to three additional years beyond the base year. The Coast Guard will have full ownership of the surveillance data obtained.
This is a system suggested here five years ago. Additional details on the system were included in my earlier post. There are also comments regarding our experience with the system in the intervening years.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 25, 2011) Guy Mcallister, from Insitu Group, performs maintenance on the Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45). Scan Eagle is a runway independent, long-endurance, UAV system designed to provide multiple surveillance, reconnaissance data, and battlefield damage assessment missions. Comstock is part of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, which is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility during a western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph M. Buliavac/Released)
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Here is the Coast Guard news release on this. The UAS will be assigned to Stratton. http://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/uas062816.asp
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It appears that training of Stratton’s crew has been completed at Insitu and required certification to operate the ScanEagle UAS in the next phase of testing is about to begin (or may have already).
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/imps-news/coast-guard-members-complete-suas-training/
Acquisition Update: Coast Guard Invites Industry Feedback On Small UAS Draft Request For Proposal. https://www.uscg.mil/acquisition/newsroom/updates/uas032917.asp
More testing and installation. http://navaltoday.com/2017/10/24/us-coast-guard-starts-operational-testing-of-small-unmanned-aircraft-system-for-nscs/?uid=171
An update. https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/surface-navy-association/2018/01/19/coast-guard-to-launch-small-drone-competition/
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Commandant pushing for Scan Eagle on all National Security Cutters. (We could probably put them on all WHECs and WMECs as well.) https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/12/10/coast-guard-commandant-boosts-plan-outfit-cutters-scaneagle-drones.html