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SAN DIEGO -- Jan 30, 2012
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $47.2 million contract for the purchase and integration of two more Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payloads on two existing Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft.
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SAN DIEGO -- Jan 26, 2012
Northrop Grumman Corporation has released the following statement on the Global Hawk Block 30 program.
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SAN DIEGO -- Oct 24, 2011
Environmental scientists will utilize the Northrop Grumman-built unmanned NASA Global Hawks as part of the multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3), a study of the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean.
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SAN DIEGO -- Sept 23, 2011
A U.S. Air Force Block 10 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, built by Northrop Grumman, completed its last mission in late May. The last Block 10 to fly as an Air Force aircraft was the one with the most flight hours, more than 7,650 with more than 7,000 of those hours flown providing surveillance for our combat troops.
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SAN DIEGO -- Aug 17, 2011
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Northrop Grumman Corporation have received a NASA Group Achievement Award for the successful development of the first civilian use of the Global Hawk system for the NASA science community.
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SAN DIEGO -- Aug 16, 2011
The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command has declared that the Northrop Grumman-built unmanned RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk has reached its initial operational capability (IOC).
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - July 26, 2011
Northrop Grumman Corporation's RQ-4B Block 40 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) completed its first full system flight with the high performance AN/ZPY-2, also referred to as the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor. The flight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on July 21.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - July 7, 2011
The newest Northrop Grumman Corporation built RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft completed the first of many production acceptance flights of an operational Block 30 multi-intelligence sensor package on May 25, flown from Palmdale, Calif.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - June 1, 2011
Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Air Force commemorated the arrival of the first RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at Grand Forks Air Force Base. The aircraft landed on May 26 from Beale Air Force Base, Calif. The arrival of the Global Hawk also commemorates Grand Forks as the second main operating base in the United States after Beale.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Monday, April 4, 2011
Ten years ago this month, Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) entered the Guinness Book of Records for the longest nonstop unmanned flight when it flew from Edwards Air Force Base in California to RAAF Base Edinburgh in South Australia. A decade on, the long endurance UAS continues to show its strength and versatility in military and civilian tasks in the Australia region and across the globe.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Monday, March 28, 2011
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) submitted its final proposal last week for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) core capability ? a trans-Atlantic cooperation that will meet the security challenges of the 21st century.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC)-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR), the research is being done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve winter storm forecasts.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) completed the first of three fuselages for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) System Development and Demonstration (SDD) program. The MQ-4C fuselage will undergo final assembly and system checkout at the company's Palmdale, Calif. facility ahead of its first flight next year.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Wednesday, March 9, 2011
On Jan. 21, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center took a major step toward demonstrating autonomous aerial refueling between two unmanned, high altitude aircraft, an operation never before performed.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Monday, March 7, 2011
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program conducted system Critical Design Review (CDR) with the U.S. Navy last month.
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GLOBE NEWSWIRE - Friday, December 17, 2010
Euro Hawk®, the premier unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the German Air Force, successfully proved its long endurance capability with a 30.3-hour flight over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and EADS Deutschland GmbH, operating through Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, the high-flying UAS took off Dec. 1 at 4:47 p.m. PST and landed Dec. 2 at approximately 10:59 p.m. PST.
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Lexington Institute - Friday, June 25, 2010
The outcome of the Defense Acquisition Board's June 24 meeting on the future of the Global Hawk unmanned aerial system appears to have been a split decision, with some airframes and sensors approved while funding of others was deferred. The mixed outcome introduces an element of uncertainty into the Air Force program, which is the highest-altitude, longest-endurance unmanned system the service operates. The plan had been to retire manned U-2 reconnaissance planes and replace them with the unmanned Global Hawk, but now it isn't entirely clear how the Air Force will proceed.
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FOX 5 News San Diego - February 10, 2010
RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. - Some of the first images showing the damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti came from a Global Hawk aircraft. The 50 million dollar plane was developed and engineered at Northrop Grumman in Rancho Bernardo....
