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Resolute Eagle is a long-endurance Group 3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by PAE ISR, based in Sterling, Virginia. Designed for military, homeland security, law enforcement and humanitarian use, Resolute Eagle comes in two configurations:


 * A standard fixed-wing airframe and
 * A hybrid vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) alternative.

The standard fixed-wing UAS is launched by light catapult and lands by skidding to a halt on its belly. As such, no runway is needed for recovery.

The hybrid VTOL Resolute Eagle, by contrast, requires an even smaller logistical footprint. It has two mounted, battery-powered booms with four propellers, so it can take off and land like a helicopter—but still cruise for long distances like a plane.

Company officials say the hybrid Resolute Eagle can be used for maritime missions, operating from the decks of smaller ships.

Testing and certification
In November 2017, the Resolute Eagle conducted its first commercial airspace flight at the Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range Complex, at Pendleton Airport, in Oregon. The following November, the VTOL version of the UAS received an interim flight clearance from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command.

Contracts
In June 2017, PAE ISR was one of four companies tapped by the U.S. Navy to compete for a position on a potential five-year, $1.73 billion contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services.

The following year, in October, PAE ISR was one of three organizations selected by NASA to conduct, by July 2020, a flight demonstration of UAS sense-and-avoid technologies to be included in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System Project.

In November 2018, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate chose PAE ISR to participate in the Robotic Aircraft Sensor Program—Borders (RASP-B), designed to assess small, flight-proven UAS for border security missions.

In addition, the Resolute Eagle was tapped to compete as the replacement for the U.S. Army’s aging RQ-7 Shadow as part of the Future Tactical UAS program.

Payloads
Resolute Eagle is designed to be a long-endurance, multi-intelligence platform. Current payloads include the TASE400 LD optical and laser designation system and MPU5 mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio But company officials say that they are considering wide-area motion imagery (WAMI), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and a signals intelligence (SIGINT) package as add-on options. Both configurations of the Resolute Eagle are also capable of being armed.

According to company officials, PAE ISR is now reducing the weight of the Resolute Eagle in order to double its payload capacity.

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