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USAF to Launch $555 Million Unmanned Modernization Project
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Issue Net Edition | Date : 07 Nov , 2013

RQ-4 Global Hawk

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $555.6 million contract to modernize the USAF’s fleet of Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The Department of Defense (DoD) stated that the modernization efforts would include upgrade to the Global Hawk’s “configuration management, data management, retrofit requirements and integrated logistics support.”

The upgrades will be carried out at Northrop Grumman’s aerospace systems facility in San Diego and is expected to be completed by May 2015.

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