Northrop Grumman awarded $3.2bn unmanned aircraft contract by US Air Force

Posted on 7 Oct 2015 by Aiden Burgess

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $3.2bn contract by the US Air Force for the development, modernization, retrofit and sustainment activities for all US Air Force variants of the RQ-4 Global Hawk un-manned surveillance plane.

The global security company will provide management as a part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract over the next 10 years. Northrop Grumman will also provide engineering efforts and further management, including configuration management, data management, reliability, availability and maintainability; and related areas of concern such as technical refresh and diminishing manufacturing resources. The Global Hawk is an unmanned…

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