UAV Market to Benefit from Navy and Air Force Partnering Under New MOA

July 7, 2010 - PRLog -- The UAV market will likely benefit from Navy and Air Force partnering under new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed June 12 by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force are now mutual partners in defense aviation surveillance. The MOA is aimed to increase interoperability for the Northrop Grumman remotely piloted aircrafts like the RQ-4 Global Hawk System used by the Air Force and the MQ-4 BAMS UAS used by the Navy. These multi-mission surveillance aircrafts provide intelligence, data collection and reconnaissance to commanders in theater. Two services are now commited to maximized commonalities and co-efficiencies of the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (BAMS UAS) and Air Force’s Global Hawk (GH).

The U.S. military UAV market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 10% between 2010 and 2015, according to U.S. Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market Forecast 2010-2015, a new market study from Market Research Media. The report predicts the U.S. military UAV market will generate $ 62 Billion revenues over the period 2010 – 2015.
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Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, Vice Adm. Jack Dorsett said:

   “This agreement allows us to leverage the shared and complementary expertise of the Navy and Air Force and deliver agile, interoperable systems to the warfighter. We also look forward to the increased efficiencies that this approach will deliver to the benefit of both the BAMS and Global Hawk programs.”

Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Lt. Gen. David Deptula elaborated:

   “This memorandum of agreement is a tremendous opportunity to collaborate and seek out greater efficiencies and synergies between our two services. We believe it’s the right thing for the service chiefs, combatant commanders, the Department of Defense, and ultimately our Sailors, Airmen and Marines out there in combat.

   We’re going to focus on basing, maintenance, aircraft command and control, logistics, training and the data requirements for processing exploitation and dissemination of BAMS and Global Hawk. Take for example if we decide to jointly base in Italy. We can eliminate excessive personnel redundancies by having only one squadron based there instead of two. We can have Navy personnel operating Air Force Aircraft and vice versa.”

The MOA covers six categories which will be examined closely by a soon to be established Synergies Working Group, (SWG). The SWG will identify and make recommendations that maximize Service program commonalities and efficiencies.

This MOA effort is led by the Deputy CNO for Information Dominance (Navy) and the Air force Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance who also support the Under Secretary of Defense of Intelligence.

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