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Article: Pentagon revamps management of unmanned aircraft programs.
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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The Defense Department is adding billions of dollars to future budgets for unmanned air vehicles, but Pentagon officials cautioned that UAV programs increasingly will be scrutinized not just for their technical performance, but also for how they manage costs.
UAVs no longer are novelties that should be treated as isolated laboratory projects, officials said. If the Defense Department is to fulfill its goals of proliferating UAVs as mainstream military weapons, they will nor only have to be cheaper, but also easier to integrate with other aircraft, ships and ground vehicles.
Most UAV programs today "need robust concepts of operations, doctrines, ...