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The State Department announced that the Trump administration approved a policy change to reinterpret an arms control agreement in order to facilitate exports of unmanned aerial systems designed for military use and help U.S. allies meet their national security requirements.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a one-year, $217.M contract modification to continue operating the payload of a U.S. Air Force system built to transmit voice, data and video across disparate networks. The company will also support payload equipment and related services for the Battlefield Airborne Communication Node through the modification, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) aerospace systems sector a potential 10-year, $4.8B contract to extend support services for the military branch's RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 31, 2018 — A Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) business unit will support Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) under a $65M subcontract to sustain an unmanned aircraft system that the latter built for the U.S. Air Force, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 24. As a subcontractor, Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business will …

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $149.6M contract modification to operate and sustain the payload for a U.S. Air Force system used to translate and transmit information across disparate networks . This modification represents the first option year under a previously awarded contract and brings the contract’s total cumulative …

AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) management services group has landed a potential seven-year, $961 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force maintain and operate remotely piloted aircraft. The company said Tuesday it will provide organizational-level maintenance services for MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-4 Global Hawk systems, as well as support MQ-9 aircrew operators worldwide. “RPA systems are …

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a one-year, $172.7 million contract to manage the payload technology for the U.S. Air Force‘s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also support BACN payload equipment and services under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. USAF will obligate $56 million in fiscal 2018 overseas contingency …

The former Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Lt. Gen. David Deptula has a new report that offers the Defense Department suggestions as it writes a 25-year plan for unmanned aircraft. The U.S. military needs to overhaul the way it is buying and managing drones, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 9, 2017 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has rescheduled the flight test of its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft with the United Technologies Corp.-built (NYSE: UTX) MS-177 multispectral imaging sensor to late January, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “The late December test flight was on schedule, but other scheduled test flights affected the …

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. Raytheon will equip the mission control stations for the Northrop-built UAS with open architecture that will work to facilitate the addition …