Hoeven Outlines Project ULTRA’s Potential for Expanding UAS, Counter-UAS Capabilities to General Bussiere

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, today met with General Thomas Bussiere at the Grand Forks Air Force Base and GrandSKY. Bussiere currently serves as Commander of Global Strike Command and has been nominated to serve as the next Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Accordingly, Hoeven is leveraging the visit as an opportunity to:
“Project ULTRA is an efficient, cost-effective method for realizing the potential benefits of UAS to a wide range of military operations, and we’re working to expand the innovative work being undertaken at GrandSKY,” said Hoeven. “Considering his nomination as Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General Bussiere’s visit is a welcome opportunity to showcase the unique capabilities of Project ULTRA and our UAS ecosystem, while making the case for additional partnerships, like the proposal we’re advancing to use drones to supply our missile fields. At the same time, the UAS infrastructure and systems we’ve built up in the region would serve a future ISR mission well, and we continue to make the case for bringing such an operation to Grand Forks.”

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