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The article reports that the U.S. Air Force wants to be Pentagon's UAV manager, but the plan has Army and Navy officials worried. Senior Air Force officials are petitioning the Pentagon's civilian leadership to name the service as the Defense Department's executive agent setting requirements and standards as well as guiding development for unmanned aerial vehicles as part of an effort to expand its core missions beyond the "silk scarf" force of manned aircraft. While still in the initial throes of a dramatic 25% reduction of its fighter fleet, USAF officials are reinventing the service as the military's primary organization for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, as well as the director for development and operation of unmanned surveillance and combat aircraft.