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NEW PHOENIX GHOST DRONE WAS ‘BIG SAFARI’ PROJECT
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NEW PHOENIX GHOST DRONE WAS ‘BIG SAFARI’ PROJECT
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Dr. William A.
LaPlante holds a press brief at the Pentagon, May 6, 2022. (DoD Photo by U.S.
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James K. Lee)
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Written by Jon Harper
May 6, 2022 | FEDSCOOP
The new Phoenix Ghost suicide drone that the U.S. is supplying to Ukraine was a
project overseen by a secretive Air Force office known as Big Safari, the
Pentagon’s top weapons buyer revealed Friday.
The Biden administration on April 21 publicly revealed the system’s existence
when it announced that it planned to send more than 120 of them to Ukraine as
part of a broader security assistance package.
The research-and-development effort for the weapon was overseen by the 645th
Aeronautical Systems Group, also known as Big Safari, which works on special
projects, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William
LaPlante told reporters at the Pentagon. The organization is based at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
“If you know anything about that office, they do lots of really great, fast-type
work. They were very active during Afghanistan and Iraq” wars, he said.
The Phoenix Ghost tactical unmanned aerial system was already being developed by
the U.S. military and AEVEX Aerospace before the recent Russian invasion began
on Feb. 24.
“The Air Force was working on this and, in discussions with the Ukrainians again
about their requirements, we believed that this particular system would very
nicely suit their needs, particularly in eastern Ukraine,” Pentagon Press
Secretary John Kirby told reporters last month.
On Friday, Kirby told reporters that a cohort of about 20 Ukrainian soldiers is
about to wrap up a week-long training course on how to use the system.
LaPlante said that in the future the Pentagon may use an
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract mechanism that will make
it easier to buy additional Phoenix Ghost systems.
IDIQ is “a contract that has a ceiling on it but that you can put individual
task orders against it. The nice thing about that is if later on, you have a
contract already set up … if you want to go back and buy more of something even
more than we originally planned,” he said. “It’s pretty straightforward to do
it. I’m pretty sure we will have that arrangement in that case.”
-IN THIS STORY-
Big Safari, drones, Phoenix Ghost, Ukraine, unmanned aircraft system (UAS),
William LaPlante Jr.
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