Department of the Navy - RQ-21A Blackjack UAS Procurement

The Department of the Navy procured RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial systems from Insitu, Inc. for USD 10,532,041. The RQ-21A is a small tactical unmanned aircraft system designed to support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with up to 16 hours of endurance, operating from both land and maritime environments. As the Program of Record for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, the system provides persistent detection, classification, and tracking capabilities with a modular payload architecture supporting electronic warfare, communications relay, and multi-sensor configurations.