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Friday, February 10, 2012

Pentagon Budget Is Said to Fund First Northrop Global Hawk Drones for NATO

RQ-4A Global HawkThe Pentagon proposes in its new budget to spend $1.2 billion for the first three NATO-version Northrop Grumman Corp. Global Hawk drones and three additional U.S. Navy-version drones, according to an official.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced this month it planned to buy five of the unmanned aircraft, known as the Alliance Ground System, through 2017.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters Feb. 4 without elaboration that “we have protected funding for AGS in our new budget.”

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