Northrop Grumman Awarded Global Hawk Funds

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, California, has been awarded a $16,232,399 modification (P00534) to previously awarded contract F33657-01-C-4600 for engineering and manufacturing development for the Global Hawk system. Contractor will provide the development and integration of software fixes and maintainer graphical user interface tasks into the Global Hawk ground station. This modification builds off of the existing ground station software and corrects reported deficiencies. Work will be performed in San Diego, and is expected to be complete by December 30, 2016. Fiscal 2015 reasearch, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $13,184,570 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.