SAN DIEGO, April 12, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- The U.S. Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities have grown as Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered another RQ-4 ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential $104 million subcontract to update the ground controls of the U.S. Air Force™s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system.

In early talks on the forthcoming fiscal 2014 budget request, the U.S. Air Force is proposing to close the book on Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk franchise, canceling the ground surveillance variant.

Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC was awarded a $287 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the next production lot of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial systems. The Los Angeles defense contractor said ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Northrop Grumman holds about 45 contracts related to the RQ ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force said on Monday it was too costly to modify for export a fleet of 18 unmanned Northrop Grumman Corp Global Hawk surveillance planes that the Pentagon ...

The cost of a program to build high-profile unmanned surveillance aircraft, known as Global Hawks, has increased by nearly $900 million since 2001, according to a Government Accountability Office ...

Now that Congress has passed a spending bill to keep the government running in fiscal 2013, budget fights over programs such as Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk are about to be renewed. On March 21, the ...

We had an item the other day about the cost of keeping the Air Force’s RQ-4 Global Hawk drone fleet flying. We updated it Wednesday with answers from the Air Force that warrant further examination ...