Insitu Awarded $8.6 Million Services Contract by Canada Armed Forces to Support Long-Endurance CU-172 (Integrator) UAS Fleet
BINGEN, Washington, March 31, 2026 – Insitu, a Boeing Company, has been awarded an $8.6 million firm fixed-price services contract by Canada’s Department of National Defense to support the Canada Armed Forces’ fleet of long-endurance CU-172 Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS).
The CU-172 UAS is Canada’s name for the RQ-21A Blackjack UAS, originally fielded as a former US DoD Program of Record, currently available as the Integrator UAS with upgraded capabilities, endurance, and range.
The contract includes a base award of $8.6 million for program management and airworthiness services and contains further budget to support authorized work requests for spares, repairs, and other future work, including the addition of advanced resilience features and other updated capabilities currently offered on today’s Integrator UAS platform.
“We are honored to support the evolution of our important Canadian customer’s fleet of long-endurance CU-172 UAS to meet the challenges of today’s contested battlespaces,” said Diane Rose, Insitu CEO. “This award shows that our customers continue to value the unmatched endurance, range, payload capacity, and capability set offered by CU-172 for deep intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting (ISR-T) and multi-intelligence mission sets normally reserved for larger, more expensive assets,” she added. “We’re excited to continue to support our Canadian allies as they enhance capabilities to evolve their fleet and take advantage of the advanced capability sets of Integrator UAS.”
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Insitu was awarded an $8.6 million contract by Canada’s Department of National Defense on March 31, 2026, to support the CU-172 UAS fleet. This contract includes program management and airworthiness services, as well as future enhancements for the UAS, which is the Canadian variant of the RQ-21A Blackjack. Insitu aims to improve the UAS's capabilities for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting missions.
- Insitu awarded an $8.6 million contract by Canada’s Department of National Defense.
- The contract supports the CU-172 UAS fleet, which is the Canadian version of the RQ-21A Blackjack.
- The contract includes program management, airworthiness services, and future work requests.
- Insitu aims to enhance the capabilities of the CU-172 UAS for ISR-T missions.
- The CU-172 UAS is noted for its endurance, range, and payload capacity.