Insitu Inc.
Bingen, Washington maker of the ScanEagle and Integrator ISR drones; a Boeing subsidiary that has fielded 3,500+ UAS for armed forces in 35 nations.
Insitu Inc. is an American designer and manufacturer of small and tactical uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), headquartered at 118 East Columbia River Way in Bingen, Washington. The company was founded in 1994 by engineers building miniature robotic aircraft; its early work included the Aerosonde long-range weather reconnaissance concept and the SeaScan maritime imaging aircraft, from which ScanEagle was developed before the company shifted to military customers after 2003. Boeing, a long-time partner, acquired Insitu in 2008 for roughly $400 million, and the company operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. On August 10, 2026, Archer Aviation announced definitive agreements to acquire Insitu together with Boeing's Wisk Aero and SkyGrid units; the deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance and other regulatory approvals. According to Archer's announcement, Insitu has manufactured and fielded more than 3,500 UAS, serves the armed forces of 35 nations and generates more than $200 million in annual revenue.
ScanEagle is the company's best-known aircraft and has been deployed on land since 2004 and at sea since 2005; Insitu cites more than 1.6 million combat operational hours. The published specifications are a 3.1 m (10.2 ft) wingspan, 1.71 m length, 28 kg (62 lb) maximum takeoff weight, up to 8 kg (17 lb) of payload with up to 150 W of payload power, 18 hours of endurance, a 19,500 ft ceiling and a maximum speed of 80 knots, with heavy-fuel (JP-5/JP-8) or C-10 gasoline engines. It launches from a rail launcher and is recovered by a wing hook on the SkyHook line, or uses the FLARES VTOL kit, which carries the aircraft vertically to 500 ft AGL and releases it into wing-borne flight, then recovers it on a tethered capture rope at about 300 ft onto the Mast Augmented Recovery System (MARS). Payload options include EO and mid-wave infrared imagers, synthetic aperture radar, laser rangefinders and designators, electronic warfare and SIGINT packages, communications relay and AIS vessel identification. Insitu states that ScanEagle has operated in GPS-contested and denied environments since 2018 and offers proliferated LEO SATCOM.
Integrator is the larger tactical airframe: 4.9 m (16 ft) wingspan, 2.5 m length, 79 kg (175 lb) maximum takeoff weight, up to 23 kg (50 lb) of payload across 10 bays with 500 W of power and Ethernet, endurance of up to 27.5 hours, range of up to 2,000 nmi, a 19,500 ft ceiling and a top speed above 90 knots on a fuel-injected JP-5/JP-8 engine. The RQ-21A Blackjack, co-developed with the U.S. Navy as a small tactical UAS for land and sea operations, is the program-of-record variant of Integrator. Both aircraft are also offered with FLARES vertical launch and recovery.
Beyond airframes, Insitu sells imaging payloads (the Warden HSOR, PT-6, WAMI wide-area motion imagery, NSP-3, NSP-5, Alticam 14, Alticam 06, EO960, Dual Imager and EOIR5) and software, including the Common Ground Control Station (cGCS), which can also control non-Insitu aircraft, INEXA Control, the TacitView video exploitation suite, the Tungsten SDK, Catalina and a Media Management Suite. Besides its Washington headquarters, the company lists offices in Alderley (Queensland, Australia), Oxford (United Kingdom), where it has launched an Autonomy Centre of Excellence, and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
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Company Facts
Founded
1994
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
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Primary Region
North America
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Funding Stage
Subsidiary / Acquired
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