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    USS Freedom To Be Deployed To Singapore

    As bid to expand its Asia Pacific presence, the US Navy will deploy its first of the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Freedom to Singapore for a 10 month deployment starting from Spring 2013. USS Freedom (LCS-1) of the Freedom class Littoral C ...
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    • Posted: 5 days ago
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    Funding Confirmed for Global Hawk UAV Program at Beale

    There may still be air under the wings of the Global Hawk mission at Beale Air Force Base, after a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee voted to keep funding for the unmanned surveillance aircraft. RQ4B Global Hawk Block 30 Lands at Beale Air Force B ...
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    • Posted: 6 days ago
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    Northrop Grumman Seeks Easing of Export Controls On UAVs

    The United States risks losing its current competitive edge in the unmanned aircraft market unless Washington acts soon to ease tough restrictions on their export for commercial use, the chief executive of Northrop Grumman said on Friday. Block 40 Global H ...
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    • Posted: 3 weeks ago
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    MARKET FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT CALLED STRONGUNMANNED AIRCRAFT CONTINUE TO SOAR

    Northrop Grumman unmanned systems BROAD AREA MARITIME SURVEILLANCE UNMANNED AIRCRAFT (above) What A maritime derivative of the RQ-4 Global Hawk Function To search and identify targets over water Contract value $1.16 billion Wingspan 130.9 feet Length 47.6 ...
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    • Posted: 4 weeks ago
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    India Could Require up to 8 MQ-4C BAMS UAVs

    To ensure continuous coverage of its oceanic frontiers, the Indian navy would need six to eight Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned air systems (UAS). MQ-4C BAMS Global Hawk This number would allow India to keep a BAMS a ...
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    • Posted: 1 month ago
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    Philippines and US to hold military exercise over Spratly

    Tensions in the hotly contested Spratly Island boils again when one of its claimant country, the Philippines will hold a military exercise with its strong military ally, the US next month. The large scale annual military manouver known as Balikatan will in ...
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    • Posted: 2 months ago
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    US Air Force Defends Global Hawk Grounding Decision

    U.S. Air Force leadership has defended the decision to halt acquisition and current operations of the Global Hawk Block 30 UAV, in favor of retaining the manned Lockheed Martin U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of St ...
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    • Posted: 2 months ago
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    Military OEM Passes Two Milestones in Nnmanned Aircraft Contracts

    Aurora Flight Sciences (Manassas, Va.) reported that it has been awarded a contract by Boeing Defense, Space and Security to design and fabricate structural components for the Boeing SolarEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The announcement followed a Jan ...
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    • Posted: 2 months ago
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    Reinventing the wheel (?), extending capabilities and talking with the next generation

    DARPA released a broad-agency announcement (DARPA-BAA-12-27) for the Fixed Wireless at a Distance program. The program aims to overcome perceived limitations of today's military mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and develop mobile communications infrastructu ...
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    • Posted: 2 months ago
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    BAMS Unmanned Aircraft System Program Achieves Two Major Milestones

    Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE NOC) has commenced flight tests of the first developmental multifunction active sensor (MFAS) radar destined for the U.S. Navys MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS). The MFAS sensor h ...
    • Popularity: 24%
    • Posted: 3 months ago

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