UAV Sensor Deal

DRS Technologies won a $7 million contract to produce lightweight electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor systems for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System (FCS) program Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). DRS, Parsippany, N.J., said the sensors provide imagery during reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition. DRS will develop and provide emulators and prototypes of an EO/IR system that meets the reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) requirements of the FCS Class I UAV. The contract was awarded to DRS by Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Integrated Systems sector, California Microwave Systems unit, located in Belcamp, Md. More