The Australian Defence Organisation has announced plans to create an unmanned air vehicle roadmap before the end of this year to pave the way for a series of tactical and endurance system acquisitions planned over the next six years.
Head of airborne surveillance projects in the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation, Air Vice Marshal Norm Gray, says: "The purpose of it is to actually look at the utility of UAVs in the widest possible range of roles; the widest possible range of ways it can change our force structure [and] change our ability to deliver capability."
The development programme will be led by the aerospace capability development cell within the Australian Defence headquarters, with technical support from Booz Allen Hamilton.
Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force, Air Marshal Angus Houston, says the UAV roadmap "will include a framework for comparing and contrasting the spectrum of UAVs and other capabilities."
Source: Flight International
