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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation.
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams	Global Hawk Gaining Scientific Pedigree Two high flying Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles have been adapted for environmental science research missions thanks to a joint effort by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Northrop Grumman Corp.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Ben Ames	Unmanned combat aircraft takes to the air Military engineers at Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems are working on a carrier-based unmanned fighter jet to serve in dangerous missions like striking enemy radar centers, or endurance missions like long-term surveillance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Global Hawk Uses Ethernet Switch From Performance Technologies Northrop Grumman needed a switching device for their Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. They found a solution in the CPC6600 Embedded Ethernet Switch from Performance Technologies
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman	The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Department of Homeland Security uses Northrop Grumman UAV The Hunter UAV from Northrop Grumman, in helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security protect the U.S.-Mexican border, will use optoelectronic infrared sensors to scan the Arizona border area 90 miles southeast of Tucson.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	GoldenEye UAV Makes First Autonomous Transition Flights GoldenEye-50, which Aurora announced in 2003 and first flew in July 2004, exhibits helicopter-like hover and vertical takeoff and landing performance as well as fuel-efficient, wing-borne flight similar to a conventional airplane.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Steadicopter Builds Autonomous UAV By combining a patented computer program and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) with an existing minicopter, an Israeli company has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could be the next homeland-security defense tool.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008	Northrop Grumman Selects Cubic Data Link Systems for U.S. Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout Each Fire Scout data link system comprises two components, air data terminals and ground data terminals, both of which assist in the Fire Scout's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeting missions.
National Defense May 2005 Robert H. Williams	Long-Endurance Aerial Killer Passes Test A 500-pound inert weapon has been dropped successfully from a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The test was conducted by Northrop Grumman Corporation, working in conjunction with Scaled Composites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	BAE Systems Uses MathWorks Tool to Design Antenna Stabilizer Soldiers in the U.S. Army's Future Combat System vehicles will use these antennas to get mobile and dependable communications from their Joint Tactical Radio System radios and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), even as their Humvees travel over rough ground.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Flight- and Mission-Control Computers for BAMS Maritime Patrol UAV to Come From Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wright Controls won a contract from Northrop Grumman to provide the Advanced Mission Management System (AMMS) for a maritime patrol variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk long-range, high-altitude UAV.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale	Northrop Grumman Proposes High-Energy Ground Laser to Defend Commercial Aircraft The defense company proposed a ground-based, high-energy laser system called Skyguard as part of a layered airport defense to protect commercial jetliners from terrorists firing shoulder-fired missiles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson	The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna	Navy Surveillance Drone Undergoes First Round of Flight Tests The Navy is one step closer to having its own fleet of unmanned aircraft capable of conducting long-endurance surveillance missions at high altitudes. The MQ-4C Triton completed its initial test flight phase in March.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John Keller	L-3 Electrodynamics to provide crash-survivable memory units for Euro Hawk UAV New crash-survivable memory units, which can store 500 megabytes of data in crash-protected memory, is designed to meet the crash survivability requirements of the industry standard for military and commercial aircraft.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Opens, NASA Sponsors $2 Million Prize X Prize has opened registration and outlined the rules for the $2 million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which calls for teams to design and develop a vehicle to simulate trips between the moon's surface and lunar orbit.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	New battery for B-2 bomber increases power fivefold The improved design also boasts better high- and low-temperature performance, and needs less maintenance. Pilots have been flight-testing the design since June, and have logged more than 700 hours of test time.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Dan Radovsky	Drones: More Than a Buzzword for Boeing Boeing's gamble in unmanned aircraft may pay off ... one day.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale	Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman readies laser-based anti-missile system for operational deployment One Skyguard system can provide a protective shield of about six miles in diameter to defend deployed forces, a large military installation, a large civilian population, or industrial area, Northrop Grumman officials say.
Popular Mechanics February 28, 2008 Erik Sofge	Crash-Proof UAVs Fly Blind at MIT's High-Tech Aerodrome The Real-Time Indoor Autonomous Vehicle Test Environment (RAVEN) lab allows researches to test new designs for unmanned aircraft.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007	Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Adopts Themis Quorum Automated Management Software The software will be used in Northrop Grumman's battle-management command-and-control (BMC2) subsystem.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Rich Smith	Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Part 3 It's time to catch up with the latest developments regarding unmanned aerial vehicles.
National Defense February 2010 Jean & Wright	Engineers Develop Single-Wing Twirling Drone Lockheed Martin Corp. engineers have unveiled a tiny aerial drone that spins like a falling maple seed.
Popular Mechanics October 8, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Unmanned Helicopter Hunts Drug Smugglers MQ-8B became the first unmanned helicopter to conduct actual operations on a navy ship.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year.
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna	Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	In Brief EOIR Technologies Wins Two Army Contracts... Texas Memory Systems and StarGen Join Hands on Embedded Applications... Alenia Aeronautica chooses Concurrent iHawk for UCAV Simulation... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	In Brief Boeing NCO experiment spotlights technologies in urban scenario... Barco forms new U.S. company to meet government and military needs... Northrop Grumman to enhance video teleconferencing... NOAA uses unmanned aircraft for research... Wake County uses new 4.9 GHz public safety band...
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Rich Smith	Northrop Gains Air Superiority Northrop Grumman signs an important contract with the U.S. Navy to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Keep an eye on Northrop, investors; they may be pulling ahead of competition as the nation's foremost military aircraft maker.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	Northrop Grumman Flight Tests New Electro-Optical Surveillance and Detection System Northrop Grumman is providing flight-test support for the U.K.'s Nimrod MRA-4 aircraft to include software development and flight test personnel training in addition to fielding inquiries regarding the system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	In Brief Raytheon's gallium nitride chips meet operational milestone... Northrop Grumman demonstrates interoperability between manned and unmanned platforms... Lockheed Martin to support submarine imaging system... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Ben Ames	POSIX: reveling in its popularity Looking to save money and reuse software, Pentagon planners are turning to POSIX. If all real-time operating systems work with POSIX, then soldiers can swap code from a broken computer to a new one.
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Jeff Wise	Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	New Global Hawk Production Aircraft Surpass 1,000 Combat Hours Two new Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance systems, built by Northrop Grumman Corp., have flown approximately 50 missions and more than 1,000 combat hours in support of coalition forces since their deployment in the Persian Gulf in January of this year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Roger Joel	Unmanned Vehicles: Autonomous and on-Target Perhaps the single biggest challenge-both to truly autonomous unmanned vehicle designers and to the widespread military deployment of unmanned vehicles-is obstacle recognition and avoidance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	B-2 simulator will use Quantum3D images Northrop engineers will use an Independence 2500 Image Generator to provide integrated visual and radar channels in the Pilot Evaluation Simulator for the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2010 Rich Smith	What's Next for Northrop? After a change in HQ, a change in stock ticker?
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Brian Gorman	Global Hawk Costs Soar Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	QinetiQ to Play Strategic Role in United Kingdom Taranis UAV Technology Demonstrator Program Computer experts at QinetiQ in Farnborough, England, will provide flight-critical software for the United Kingdom initiative to develop a world-class unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator called Taranis.
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Rich Smith	"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" 2009 Edition This edition of "Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" takes a peek within the exciting world of flying model airplanes ... that kill.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Rich Smith	U.S. Navy Gets a New $2.6 Billion Toy The U.S. Navy has fallen so in love with the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter drone that it ordered 168 of them, and offered to pay $2.6 billion.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller	Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Rich Smith	Look, Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope. It's Raytheon's newest, coolest drone.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Erik Sofge	Robot Chopper: The Navy's Smartest UAV The Fire Scout is arguably the smartest unmanned aerial vehicle ever built.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Laser weapons prove their worth in guarding against mortar attacks "For the first time, we have a way to protect our forces, and those of our allies, against almost daily mortar attacks," says Patrick Caruana, vice president of Space and Missile Defense for Northrop Grumman Space Technology.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Grumman The defense contractor releases its second-quarter 2006 earnings results tomorrow morning. Investors, take note.