Task force, not Air Force, to oversee UAVs
Published: Mon Sep 17th, 2007Source: www.airforcetimes.com
The U.S. Air Force will not become the central agency for medium-to-high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England has decided.Instead, the Pentagon will keep a closer watch on the individual services’ unmanned aircraft programs, seeking to forestall redundancy and operating miscues, England wrote in a Sept. 13 memo to senior civilian and uniformed military officials.
The defense undersecretary for acquisition will create a task force “to coordinate critical UAS issues and to develop a way ahead that will enhance operations, enable interdependencies, and streamline acquisition of [unmanned aerial systems],” England wrote.
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