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06-05-10, 03:46 AM
By Richard Scott
05 May 2010
The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has revealed a previously undisclosed plan, under the moniker of the Global Discovery Maritime Patrol Aircraft (GD MPA), to contract for a contractor-operated MPA service to support counter-narcotic operations.
According to a request for information (RfI) issued by NAVAIR on 16 April 2010, the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), in support of the Counter Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office, has a requirement for two contractor-owned/contractor-operated manned aircraft with an eight-hour mission endurance.
Current plans call for a prototype aircraft system to be operational within a maximum of two years, and deployed for operational experimentation for a minimum of three years. NAWC says the aircraft will fly a combined total of 3,000 hours per year and will be fully integrated and configured with a sensor package, including multimode radar (incorporating synthetic aperture radar, ground moving target indication and inverse synthetic aperture modes), electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), precision geo-location/direction finding and AIS (automatic identification system).
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Copyright © IHS (Global) Limited, 2010
05 May 2010
The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has revealed a previously undisclosed plan, under the moniker of the Global Discovery Maritime Patrol Aircraft (GD MPA), to contract for a contractor-operated MPA service to support counter-narcotic operations.
According to a request for information (RfI) issued by NAVAIR on 16 April 2010, the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), in support of the Counter Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office, has a requirement for two contractor-owned/contractor-operated manned aircraft with an eight-hour mission endurance.
Current plans call for a prototype aircraft system to be operational within a maximum of two years, and deployed for operational experimentation for a minimum of three years. NAWC says the aircraft will fly a combined total of 3,000 hours per year and will be fully integrated and configured with a sensor package, including multimode radar (incorporating synthetic aperture radar, ground moving target indication and inverse synthetic aperture modes), electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), precision geo-location/direction finding and AIS (automatic identification system).
157 of 347 words
Copyright © IHS (Global) Limited, 2010