Task force, not Air Force, to oversee UAVs

Posted on: Sep. 17th, 2007 || Source: airforcetimes.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

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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