Military 'Aggressively Working' To Ease Drone Sales Abroad -- Aol Defense
LAS VEGAS: As US defense spending ramps down, both the military and the aerospace industry want to sell more drones to friends and allies overseas. Right now, however, export controls and arms control treaties make that awfully hard.
"The foreign sales aspect of these RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft] is potentially huge," Maj. Gen. James Poss, who heads policy making on intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for the Air Force staff, said Wednesday at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference (click here for full coverage). A less restrictive export policy for unmanned aircraft is "in the national interest of the United States," Poss continued. "It's something we're aggressively working with both the OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] policy folks and the State Department."
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My Comment: The world drone market is huge .... if it is not the U.S., it will be someone else.
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