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The USS Theodore Roosevelt is now the first Navy<\/a> carrier to be equipped with an Unmanned Air Warfare Center that will support the Boeing-made MQ-25A<\/a>, the first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao announced during a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing that the MQ-25A was moving into the low-rate initial production and deployment<\/a> phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aircraft<\/a> is intended to relieve the Navy\u2019s F\/A-18 Super Hornets of the aerial refueling role, freeing up F\/A-18E\/F aircraft to focus on strike missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo, dated April 21, 2026, was recently published by the Pentagon within a Modernized Selected Acquisition Report<\/a>. It was first reported by The War Zone<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report notes<\/a> that in March 2026, the USS Theodore Roosevelt Unmanned Air Warfare Center \u201cbecame the first fully operational\/deployable MQ-25 capable aircraft carrier,\u201d with another UAWC aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan slated \u201cto be operational\/deployable at the end of [August] 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush was the first aircraft carrier on which the UAWC was installed and tested<\/a> back in August 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Navy,<\/a> the integrated Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System and the MD-5E Ground Control Station are the systems required for the MQ-25 air vehicle command and control \u2014 and are critical to the unmanned aircraft refueler\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, the Stingray reached milestone C, which in the defense acquisition process authorizes a program to transition from the engineering and manufacturing development, or EMD, phase into production and deployment, a process that in this instance has been nearly eight years in the making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inked in 2018, the $805 million Boeing-Navy contract covered the design, development, fabrication, test and delivery of four Stingray aircraft, a program that the service at the time estimated would cost about $13 billion for 72 aircraft, according to previous Military Times<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its first test flight running a year later than previously planned, on April 25 the Stingray inched closer to operability after completing an approximately two-hour flight around Mascoutah, Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the fold and able to support MQ-25 operations, deploying the unmanned refueling drone is seemingly only a matter of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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