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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fire Scout LRIP 3 Brings VTUAV Closer To OpEval


Northrop Grumman Corporation's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) program moves closer to Operational Evaluation (OpEval) with a recent U.S. Navy modification award to a previous firm fixed-price contract for the procurement of three VTUAV systems.

This award, for an amount not to exceed $40 million, is the last of three planned low-rate initial production (LRIP) buys. The Navy authorized an LRIP 1 contract to Northrop Grumman for the Fire Scout VTUAV program in June 2007.

The program achieved a series of program milestones and the Navy awarded an LRIP 2 contract in September 2008.

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