Sky Range Program Repurposes Wartime UAS

Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park—America’s only UAS (unmanned aerial systems)-specific business and aviation park located at Grand Forks Air Force Base—will accept twenty Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the United States Air Force’s 319th Reconnaissance Wing. The move is part of the Air Force’s Block 30 divestment plan, a scheme by which the service seeks to dump extant, multi-million dollar assets for purpose obtaining funding to acquire multi-billion dollar, future assets—or, as the Air Force puts it: restructure intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to meet national defense priorities, and assist in funding modernization and increas