Maintaining and Sustaining America's Legacy Drones

The United States military has an extremely large inventory of small and large drones (the military prefers the name unmanned aerial systems). While some drones (or UAS) are still in use in Afghanistan many are now back in the states. The rapid fielding of these drones into Iraq and Afghanistan now requires a realignment of maintenance and sustainment programs. Read more in "Military Taking a Larger Role in Drone Sustainment", National Defense, March 2014.