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    Northrop Kicks Off Search for 3 X-47B UAV Pilots

    Northrop Grumman has begun its search for three pilots to operate the Northrop-built X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle. Northrop said in a job notice the selected candidates will work to determine the UAV’s compliance with operational suitability and specification requirements during flight tests. Northrop developed X-47B under the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration initiative. The drone is […] More

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    L-3 Division Lands Air Force UAV Training Simulator Development Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded an L-3 Communications division a contract to develop 34 units of Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators, DefenseWorld.net reported Wednesday. Vishwanath Patil writes L-3 Link will supply PMATS simulators that will be used to train the Air Force and Air National Guard pilots and sensor operator crews of General Atomics-built […] More

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    Defense News: NATO Air Base in Italy to Take in 5 Northrop Global Hawks by Year’s End

    Northrop Grumman is scheduled to deliver five unmanned ground surveillance aircraft to NATO’s Sigonella air base in Sicily, Italy by the end of this year, Defense News reported Monday. Program officials told Defense News that 30 NATO personnel are now on the air base in preparation for a performance assessment of five Northrop-built Global Hawk […] More

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    Boeing-Built Blackjack UAS Begins Initial Operations

    The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system will kick off its initial operation after the program received a go signal. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for aviation, said the first Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron has been confirmed for deployment with the RQ-21A system, the Navy […] More

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    Cox Construction, Army Break Ground on Gray Eagle UAS Facility; Col. Kirk Gibbs Comments

    Cox Construction has broken ground on a new training facility for the General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in California under a $26 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, the Army reported Jan. 14. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site Jan. 12 with district and service branch officials […] More

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    AF Requests Info on Sense-and-Avoid Tech Sources for Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force has sought information on potential industry sources that can equip remotely piloted aircraft with platforms that work to “sense and avoid” other aerial vehicles in order to prevent collisions in airspace. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it will assess potential SAA technology systems based on nine technology […] More

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    DARPA Taps Northrop to Build Reconnaissance Drone Demonstrator; Dan Patt, Gil Graff Comment

    As covered by GovCon Wire Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a Northrop Grumman-led team to develop a demonstrator platform of an unmanned aerial system under phase three of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. Tern is a joint initiative of DARPA and the Office of Naval Research to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone that will work to […] More

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    Congressional Research Service: US Posted $36B in Foreign Weapons Sales in 2014

    A new Congressional Research Service report says the U.S. recorded $36.2 billion in foreign arms sales in 2014, an approximately $10 billion increase from $26.7 billion in 2013, DoD Buzz reported Monday. Brendan McGarry writes the U.S. worldwide arms transfer deals are comprised mainly of Qatar’s $9.6 billion purchase of Lockheed Martin-built Patriot PAC-3 missiles, […] More

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    Elbit Gets $50M Order for Airborne ISR Platform; Bezhalel Machlis Comments

    Elbit Systems will provide a full-scale airborne intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance platform to an Asia-Pacific customer under a three-year, $50 million contract. The company said Dec. 22 the airborne platform will build on the customer’s existing electro-optical cameras and sensors by Elbit with synthetic aperture radar/ground moving target indicator technology by ELTA Systems. Elbit Systems […] More

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    Breaking Defense: DARPA, AFRL to Test-Fire General Atomics-Built Laser in January

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory will perform in January live-fire tests on a General Atomics-built laser weapon that works to generate up to 150 kilowatts of energy, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Richard Whittle writes the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System based-laser platform will be test-fired at various aerial […] More

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    France Orders 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone From US

    France has placed an order for a third General Atomics-built Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the French defense ministry said Thursday. The French government made the order through the country’s directorate general of armaments and under a military program that aims to equip its air force […] More

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    Northrop Demos Ground-Based Targeting System Against UAS; Kay Burch Comments

    Northrop Grumman has conducted a demonstration of a ground-based system to test its production of targeting data and detection and monitoring of an adversary’s unmanned aircraft system. The company demonstrated the Venom platform at the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Fires Integrated Experiment held in Oklahoma, Northrop said Tuesday. The Venom system tracked small drones and provided two land-based […] More