The US Air Force (USAF) seeks information from industry to help formulate an investment roadmap to create commercial solutions for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and their components that support the development and integration of a common system architecture.
The domestic sUAS industrial base and innovation ecosystem have not been able to successfully compete with dominant foreign competition, according to a 9 August request for information (RFI) posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website.
Source: Jane’s 360
In other words
“we is getting our ass kicked by China in the s/UAS acquisition arena, and we need to find a way to buy cheaper, faster and smarter, without going to China to do it….