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Sunday, November 22, 2009

USAF Awards $302.9 Million Production Contract to Northrop Grumman for Five Global Hawk HALE Unmanned Aircraft Systems

RQ-4A Global HawkThe U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $302.9 million fixed price incentive fee contract for five RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Under the Lot 7 production contract, the company will build two Block 30 systems and three Block 40 systems for the 303d Aeronautical Systems Group at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.

The award also includes a ground station consisting of a launch and recovery element and a mission control element, plus two additional sensor suites that will be retrofitted into previous production aircraft. The contract runs through 2011.

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