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Boeing Co reached its ScanEagle 1st $25 mln contracts.


Boeing Co's wholly-owned Insitu on Wednesday said it has reached its first $25 million contract for its ScanEagle SAUV vehicle for the Canadian government for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
  • the US Joint Command see'' Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
  • the military term, see'' Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance.
 (ISR (Interrupt Service Routine) Software routine that is executed in response to an interrupt. ) operation in Afghanistan.

It has agreed to contract nearly $61 million for Canadian industry in opportunity if the government exercises additional contract options, which received $30 million contract to Insitu.

"The ScanEagle has proven itself as a long-endurance unmanned aircraft system Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is the term introduced by The United States Department of Defense (DoD) and adopted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace the term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). , and Boeing continues to prove itself as a long-endurance partner to Canada," said Insitu SUAV SUAV Study of Unmanned Air Vehicles
SUAV Small Unit Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
 Program Manager Greg Davis.

Recently, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a unit of The Boeing Company responsible for defense and aerospace products and services.  also received $250 million U.S special operation contracts using the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system for its ISR services.

In 2008, Boeing acquired the 14 year-old maker of unmanned aircraft as part of its strategic and growing defense market. The two companies worked together since 2002 to develop the successful ScanEagle UAS, which have had more than 150,000 operational flights with the U.S. Department of Defense and international customers.

Shares of Boeing fell $.015 or 0.34% at $44.01 in the regular trading.
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Title Annotation:Canadian government for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Publication:International Business Times - US ed.
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:9AFGH
Date:May 27, 2009
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