Lea Greene, chief of public affairs at Grand Forks Air Force Base, and Bruce Gjovig said the line of retired unmanned aircraft, called “Block 20” Global Hawks, will be used to conduct hypersonic ...

An RQ-4 Global Hawk receives routine maintenance after being refueled at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. Most of the Air Force’s RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude ISR drones, best known for ...

The Air Force and Northrop Grumman are modernizing the RQ-4 Global Hawk with a new ground control station; the new ground station command and control system is intended to pioneer new methods of ...

Northrop Grumman expressed disappointment over the U.S. Defense Department’s decision to scrub the Global Hawk Block 30 UAV program. “The Pentagon announced … that it is planning to cancel the Global ...

The squabbling between the Pentagon and Capitol Hill over whether to kill the biggest of the military's drones - the Global Hawk - is finished for the moment, with the remotely piloted surveillance ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Drones aren’t only useful in military surveillance operations. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, buildings had collapsed and people were dying while ...

The Pacific Ocean is a very big and deserted place. From the Western coast of America, for instance, to the shores of Japan, there are no less than 5,300 miles (over 8,500 km, shortest distance) of ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $4.8B contract to update, refurbish and sustain the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial ...

GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D., June 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Air Force commemorated the arrival of the first RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned ...

Northrop Grumman has delivered two payload upgrades for the RQ-4 Global Hawk long-endurance UAV. The first is the deployment of the MS-177 multi-spectral camera, which provides improved high ...