Boeing Receives Unmanned Drone Contract

The U.S. Defense Department awarded a two-year contract to Boeing Co. to remodel an unmanned aircraft to allow it to detect chemical and biological agents, Bloomberg reported today (see GSN, Jan. 12).

Boeing is to receive $8.2 million to install in two ScanEagle unmanned planes sensors that could detect chemical or biological agents prior to an attack by military forces, Boeing said (Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times, June 6).

“Being able to accurately determine whether a target area has biological or chemical agents, or other weapons of mass destruction, is vital to the ability of U.S. forces to successfully complete missions against terrorist threats and minimize the anger that could come to friendly forces or civilians,” Boeing official Keith Coleman said in a press release. “The technologies that we develop as part of this program will demonstrate an end-to-end combat assessment capability that we expect will have high value in the DOD’s global war on terrorism” (Boeing release, June 5).

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