Key Design Tweaks Could Bring UAV Costs Down to Earth
GMS contributes blog to AFCEA’s Signal magazine. CEO Ben Sharfi tapped for insight on defense trends, technology.
SIGNAL, August 26, 2016 – Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been deployed for military applications for decades. Although fairly unsophisticated, they were cheap to operate compared to today’s technology and they helped reduce human casualties. Today, UAVs like the Global Hawk can stay aloft over 24 hours and survey up to 40,000 square miles a day. But that kind of functionality comes with a price in the hundreds of millions dollars per unit.
In a recent article entitled “UAVs Could Fly More If Costs Came Down from the Stratosphere”, GMS CEO Benjamin K. Sharfi points out that a few key design changes could significantly reduce costs and contribute to the wider deployment of UAVs for mission-critical applications.
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