RIO DE JANEIRO - Santos Lab, a privately owned Brazilian company, is in advanced talks to sign an agreement with Insitu, a Boeing company, to act as the local marketing agent for the Scan Eagle Light Surveillance UAV, according to Santos Lab cofounder and chief executive, Gabriel Klabin.
"We are close to signing," Klabin said April 17 at the Latin America Aerospace and Defense Show.
Under the proposed memorandum of understanding, Santos Lab would market the drone with demonstrations to Brazil armed forces, and possibly later maintain and produce the equipment locally, he said.
There is presently no Brazilian request that Santos Lab would seek to "educate the armed forces in the UAV domain" he said.
Although Scan Eagle was designed for naval surveillance, the aircraft is versatile enough to be used by other services, Klabin said.
Santos Lab specializes in unpiloted aircraft and developed the Carcara UAV, which was delivered to the Brazilian Marines two years ago and is still operating.
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