From Dolphins to Destroyers: The Scan. Eagle UAVScan. Eagle launch(click to view full)Scan. Eagle’s base Insight UAV platform was originally developed by Washington state’s Insitu, Inc. It turns out that the same characteristics needed by fishing boats (able to handle salt water environments, low infrastructure launch and recovery, small size, 2. A partnership with Boeing took Scan. Eagle to market in those fields, and the USMC’s initial buy in 2. This article covers recent developments with the Scan. The Courses at Northwest Liberty School encompass a wide range of topics. All of which are part of a well-rounded general education plan. International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference 2011: Building the Future of Public Health Surveillance. Eagle UAV system, which is quickly evolving into a mainstay with the US Navy and its allies. Incumbency doesn’t last long in the fast- changing world of UAVs, though. Insitu’s own RQ- 2. Integrator is looking to push the Scan. Eagle aside, and new multiple- award contracts in the USA are creating opportunities for other competitors. Information on how to file an employment discrimination charge, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution services, laws/regulations, press releases and. European Companies (1281 found) Country: Name - Telephone - Email Address (Click on the blue text) Website (www) - Telephone - Fax -Twitter - Facebook - YouTube. Can Insitu’s original stay strong? The Scan. Eagle Family. Scan. Eagle BCAS launch(click for alternate view)The Scan. Eagle is solidly based on Insitu’s original “Insight” platform, with different variants distinguished by their payloads and accompanying equipment rather than their aerodynamic design. The UAVs are launched by catapult, and autonomously recovered using a folding “skyhook” and catch- line. These UAVs fill a niche between hand- launched mini- UAVs like Aerovironment’s RQ- 1. Raven or Elbit’s Skylark I, and runway- capable tactical UAVs like Textron’s RQ- 7 Shadow, Aeronautics DS’ Aerostar, or IAI’s Searcher II. Its long endurance is actually superior to its tactical UAV competitors, but its payload weight limit is significantly smaller. Scan. Eagle has been demonstrated or used from a wide variety of ship classes and types, and the family includes a number of specialty variants from sniper locator, to bio- warfare agent detection (BCAS). The base UAV has even been used successfully as a firefighting aid. A Night. Eagle conversion kit adds a different front end with thermal imaging sensors, and allows field conversion of Scan. Eagle aircraft in 2- 3 hours. More drastic modifications are found in the Scan. Eagle Compressed Carriage (SECC), whose smaller fold- out wings allow it to be launched from an aircraft pylon, or a submarine. Setup & useclick for video. In October 2. 01. Insitu introduced a new model, the Scan. Eagle 2. Compared to the original Scan. Eagle, v. 2. 0’s most obvious physical difference is the payload holder at the front, which borrows from the larger Night. Eagle configuration and can combine day and night sensors with a laser marker. Wingspan is still about 1. UAV is longer (5. Speed is unaffected (5. Scan. Eagle 2. In Exchange, Scan. Eagle 2 features the first reciprocating internal combustion propulsion system designed and manufactured specifically for small UAVs, with real- time diagnostics built in. Inside, the UAV has an Ethernet- based architecture, a fully digital video system, upgraded navigation systems, and improvements that reduce electromagnetic interference to enable more sensitive payloads. Electric power available to those payloads rises from 6. W to 1. 00- 1. 50. W. Scan. Eagle 2 uses the same Mark 4 catapults, Sy. Hook recovery system, and Insitu Common Open- mission Management Command and Control (ICOMC2) as the RQ- 2. Integrator/ Blackjack. Versatility(click for alternate view)The Scan. Eagle family’s combination of versatility, long endurance, and small size appears to be succeeding in the global defense marketplace, without really impairing the market for tactical UAVs. Boeing has had field representatives in theater for a few years now to support and operate the Scan. Eagle UAV from ships and ashore, receiving high battlefield praise and a fairly regular stream of contracts from the USA and Australia. Canada and Malaysia have also signed on for battlefield surveillance services, the Colombian, Iraqi, Tunisian, and UK Royal navies are using Scan. Eagle, and so are the Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Singapore, and Yemen. The Dutch are using Scan. Eagle as an interim UAV, Japan is testing it, and other customers wait in the wings. Reported interest includes France, Pakistan, Kuwait, and other Gulf States. Competition from Without – and Within. Aerosonde 4. 7(click to view full)The UAV field continues to change quickly. The latest US Navy ISR contract will have Scan. Eagle competing against the Aerosonde- G for naval buys of UAV services, and against both AAI’s Aerosonde G and Arcturus’ T- 2. SOCOM’s MEUAS contracts have also become a de facto competition with AAI’s Aersonde. Insitu’s flagship product will also have to contend with an internal competitor. The firm has begun to offer a next- generation “Integrator” platform, which was picked as the US Navy and Marine Corps’ next- generation RQ- 2. A Blackjack Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS- II). It’s also reported that service contracts with other countries will begin incorporating the RQ- 2. UAV or as a switch- in option. The RQ- 2. 1A Integrator boosts endurance to over 2. Wingspan rises to 1. Its sensor package will be a bit more versatile, too, with TV zoom and mid- wave infrared cameras, plus an infrared marker and a laser rangefinder (but not, yet, a target designator), all in a single package instead of the original Scan. Eagle’s swap- in options. Launch and recovery methods are the same as the Scan. Eagle’s, and use the same Mark 4 and ICOMC2 equipment. Integrator will not be covered in this article except for contracts that shift away from the Scan. Eagle to the new platform, and equally significant milestones that affect Scan. Eagle’s future. Contracts and Key Events: 2. Present. Eye in the Sky. Unless otherwise noted, contracts are issued by the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD. As of July 2. 00. Insitu Inc. is a Boeing subsidiary. Note that RQ- 2. 1A Integrator contracts won’t be covered here, unless they have a substantial impact on the Scan. Eagle’s future. Scan. Eagle 2(click to view full)July 2. Insitu has been contracted by the US Do. D to deliver five Scan. Eagle UAS systems, along with their support equipment, operators, spare parts, site activation services and management for the operation of the UAS for the government of Afghanistan. The work will primarily be conducted in Afghanistan and Bingen, Wash. April 2. 01. 8. The $1. Afghan Security Forces funding. Scan. Eagles provide intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance data with high endurance of over 2. January 1. 2/1. 7: UAV manufacturers are off to a busy 2. US Armed forces commissioning new orders and sustainment works. Washington firm Insitu has been contracted $7. Lot I RQ- 2. 1A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems to the Navy, comprised of unmanned aircraft, ground control stations, multi- mission plug- and- play payloads, and additional supporting equipment. The Army, meanwhile, has contracted Textron to perform sustainment services for the Army’s RQ- 7 Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system. Valued at $ 2. 06 million, Textron will provide engineering, logistics, field service operations, depot materiel repair and post- production software support to the Army’s fleet of 1. Shadow aircraft. July 1. Maritime surveillance capabilities of the British Royal Navy are to experience a setback in 2. It’s been reported that the service will lose its Scan. Eagle capability and Type 2. UAVs on board. It had been hoped that UAVs could have been procured under the Flexible Deployable Unmanned Air System (FDUAS) program but failed to secure funding in this year’s budget cycle. April 2. 1/1. 6: Afghanistan’s National Army has launched its first Scan. Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The first operational site is in the often volatile Helmand province, and there will be a total of eight sites situated across the country. The systems will provide the Afghan National Army with airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities as it conducts security missions against militants operating within its borders. January 2. 2/1. 6: The USMC has declared that the RQ- 2. A Blackjack UAV has achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) with deployment of the system to commence this summer. Formerly known as the Integrator, the Blackjack has been developed by Boeing as part of a low rate production of a small tactical unmanned air system (STUAS) for the US Navy, and uses the same same launcher and recovery system as the Scan Eagle system. One hundred systems of five vehicles each are planned for the USMC by 2.
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