On December 1, 2004, Dr. Keith Krapels will give a presentation on 
the Navy’s Silver Fox Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. As the U.S. began 
preparing its forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Department 
of the Navy called on the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to help 
find immediately deployable solutions for some Navy and Marine 
Corps needs. ONR’s Tech Solutions office, which finds quick technology 
solutions for the Navy and Marine Corps, developed a small unmanned 
aerial vehicle (UAV) that could give Marines up-to-date imagery on 
the battlefield. The Silver Fox UAV was developed to give the Navy 
a low cost a bird’s eye view during operations.