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AAI Nabs $242M Contract

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HUNT VALLEY, Md., October 15, 2008 – AAI Corp., an operating unit of Textron Systems, announced today that it has received a contract totaling $242.1 million for 17 additional Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS). Thirteen systems will be delivered to the US Army and four to the US Marine Corps. This award comes on the heels of the TUAS achieving 350,000 total flight hours. The vast majority of the systems’ flight hours have been in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, Shadow TUAS reached this milestone a mere four months after achieving 300,000 total flight...Read full article

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    Published: October 2008
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