AUVSI published an article regarding the U.S. Defense budget adjustments for 2015 regarding unmanned systems acquisitions.

The header reads "Unmanned systems and the platforms that use them are under constraint like everything else in the fiscal tear 2015 defense budget, which was capped by Congress last year at $496 billion. ". I wonder if this will be a trend that we'll see in all coming years as part of the budget adjustments or is this just a single occurance in the last year of the current government?

Either case, the challenge is still to develop UAVs in a reduced size for more specialized tasks and long endurance.

You can read the article at http://www.auvsi.org/332014/432014Budget

AUVSI published an article regarding the U.S. Defense budget adjustments for 2015 regarding unmanned systems acquisitions.

The header reads "Unmanned systems and the platforms that use them are under constraint like everything else in the fiscal tear 2015 defense budget, which was capped by Congress last year at $496 billion. ". I wonder if this will be a trend that we'll see in all coming years as part of the budget adjustments or is this just a single occurance in the last year of the current government?

Either case, the challenge is still to develop UAVs in a reduced size for more specialized tasks and long endurance.

You can read the article at http://www.auvsi.org/332014/432014Budget