Insitu

Insitu is an American company that designs, develops and builds unmanned aerial systems, and it is the make under which the ScanEagle, the Integrator and the RQ-21A Blackjack are sold. It was founded in 1994 by engineers interested in miniature robotic aircraft, took its name from measuring the atmosphere in situ rather than remotely, and first worked on the Aerosonde concept for long-range weather reconnaissance. At the end of the 1990s it moved to the SeaScan idea of imaging reconnaissance from tuna seiners, and after the start of the Iraq War in 2003 that work became the ScanEagle and the company turned to military customers. Boeing bought Insitu in 2008 and has held it as a wholly owned subsidiary. In August 2026 Archer Aviation announced a proposed acquisition of Insitu, and the English Wikipedia article on Insitu already describes it as sold. Headquarters and production are at Bingen, Washington, with offices in Australia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.