Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. The modification takes the contract’s total to $150.2 ...
Aircraft carriers such as the USS Nimitzcan carry aircraft, helicopters, and drones on deck. But DARPA wants to land drones on smaller warships, too. Image source:U.S. Navy. Six months ago, we ...
DARPA has fully transitioned Northrop Grumman’s Tern program to its partner, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), but it appears there are no longer firm plans to fly the ship-based ...
A futuristic reconnaissance drone designed to fly both vertically and horizontally off of small U.S. ships has passed a pair of procurement milestones, contractor Northrop Grumman said this week. The ...
Key point: Why risk expensive, high-tech carriers, when you could launch drones from any ship? The U.S. Navy is seeking to transform every ship into mini aircraft carriers. Last month the Defense ...
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has won a $17.8 million contract modification to continue its support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node ...
Out of a "battle force" of 282 warships, the United States Navy boasts just 11 aircraft carriers, and a couple dozen mini-aircraft carriers-- LPD-, LHD-, and LSD-class amphibious assault vessels ...
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