Insitu, a Boeing Company, has been awarded an $8.6 million firm fixed-price services contract by Canada’s Department of National Defense to support the Canada Armed Forces’ fleet of long-endurance CU-172 Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS).

The CU-172 UAS is Canada’s name for the RQ-21A Blackjack UAS, originally fielded as a former US DoD Program of Record, currently available as the Integrator UAS with upgraded capabilities, endurance, and range.

The contract includes a base award of $8.6 million for program management and airworthiness services and contains further budget to support authorized work requests for spares, repairs, and other future work, including the addition of advanced resilience features and other updated capabilities currently offered on today’s Integrator UAS platform.

“We are honored to support the evolution of our important Canadian customer’s fleet of long-endurance CU-172 UAS to meet the challenges of today’s contested battlespaces,” said Diane Rose, Insitu CEO. “This award shows that our customers continue to value the unmatched endurance, range, payload capacity, and capability set offered by CU-172 for deep intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting (ISR-T) and multi-intelligence mission sets normally reserved for larger, more expensive assets,” she added. “We’re excited to continue to support our Canadian allies as they enhance capabilities to evolve their fleet and take advantage of the advanced capability sets of Integrator UAS.”

About CU-172 / Integrator UAS

Integrator UAS offers up to 27.5 hours of endurance and 50lb of payload capacity across 10 bays, enabling true multi-intelligence mission sets over vast ranges. It has a long track record of safe and reliable heavy fuel operations.

When paired with Insitu’s modular Common Ground Control System and INEXA Control, and updated with current software, hardware, and resilience features, CU-172 and Integrator are ready to fly in contested electronic environments and harsh climates around the world. 

This system provides versatile solutions to meet multi-domain ISR-T needs for government and commercial operators worldwide