The Air Force wants its Wi-Fi in the sky to keep flying, awarding Northrop Grumman a $217 million extension to its contract for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node. The contract extension covers one year, with work expected to be completed by Jan. 23, 2021. Work ...
NATO on Jan. 17 received the first two of five Air Ground Surveillance system drones at NAS Sigonella, Italy. The AGS system, a variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk already in use by multiple nations, will be used by NATO to watch over Europe, and ...
Congress approved relatively modest funding for the Air Force’s main drone programs in fiscal 2020 while continuing to endorse investments in new kinds of unmanned aircraft.
An RQ-4 Global Hawk, assigned to the 319th Operations Group, Det. 1, Andersen AFB, Guam, lands at Yokota AB, Japan, Aug. 5, 2019, for a rotational deployment. The movement maintains operations for Global Hawks during months of inclement weather endured...
An RQ-4 Global Hawk receives routine maintenance after being refueled June 12, 2019, at Grand Forks AFB, N.D. Air Force photo by SrA. Elora Martinez. JBSA-LACKLAND, TEXAS—The RQ-4 Global Hawk enterprise has more work ahead to grow into its new...
