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Friday, February 03, 2012

U.S. Navy still sees savings on its version of Northrop drone

RQ-4A Global HawkThe U.S. Navy still hopes to find cost savings on its version of Northrop Grumman Corp's unmanned Global Hawk spy plane, despite concerns that the Pentagon's decision to scrap the Air Force model will eliminate promised economies of scale.

Neither the Navy nor the Air Force are providing many details until the Pentagon's fiscal 2013 budget is released on February 13, but the Navy says both military services will continue to look for synergies on the unmanned aircraft programs.

U.S. Navy spokeswoman Captain Cate Mueller declined comment on whether cancellation of the Air Force's Global Hawk Block 30 aircraft would raise the per-plane cost of the Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program.

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