Boeing and Insitu To Bring ScanEagle Endurance UAV To Market Next Year.

By Marc Strass

Boeing [BA] and Insitu plan to bring their jointly developed ScanEagle man portable, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to market by the middle of next year for a broad customer base, according to a senior program official.

"We are looking at a number of both civil and military customers for this UAV," Charlie Guthrie, director of rapid prototyping and advanced concepts for Boeing's unmanned systems division, told sister publication Defense Daily recently in a telephone interview. "We are pressing hard to bring it to market as quickly as possible."

Boeing and Insitu entered into a partnership in November for the development …