Global Hawk

Northrop Grumman Corporation, San Diego, California, is being awarded a more than $35 million contract modification for operations and maintenance services in support of U.S. Navy Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Sector, San Diego, California, is being awarded an approximate $22 million contract modification and a more than $13 million modification. The first is for: software maintenance, covering the tasks necessary for the contractor to maintain and support software for air vehicle, ground and support segments; and flight test, covering the tasks necessary for the Global Hawk (GH) system integrator (prime contractor) to participate in planning, provisioning, conducting, analyzing, and documenting an integrated GH Combined Development/Operational Flight Test Program. These tasks provide the software maintenance and flight test to keep the development program operating. The second if for the infrastructure portion of the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) block load effort, which provides for the necessary tasks that allow the contractor to manage the day-to-day EMD contract operations of the Global Hawk weapon system including air vehicle, ground segment, and support segment. These tasks provide the infrastructure necessary to keep the developmental program operational. They are not directly tied to any one specific developmental capability. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity

Northrop Grumman Intelligence Systems, Chantilly, Virginia, is being awarded a greater than $9 million contract modification to extend the Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) baseline contract to support the ASIP post-initial operational test and evaluation flight testing on the Global Hawk platform. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Sector, of  San Diego, California, is being awarded a $247 million contract to provide logistics support activities required to support Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle fielded systems and subsystems used in peacetime operations, which includes fielded air vehicles, engines, payloads, ground segments, and support segments. The contractor shall provide materials and support services to include planning, operations support and maintenance in support of Global Hawk fielded systems used in peacetime continental United States and overseas deployments. The contracting activity is Warner Robins-Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated System Sector of San Diego, California, was awarded a nearly $46 million contract modification for the advance procurement long lead items associated with two Block 30 and two Block 40 Global Hawk Air Vehicles, two in-line Airborne Signals Intelligence Payloads, two Multi-Platform RADAR Technology Insertion Program Sensors, two in-line EISS Sensors and other items and activities required to protect the production schedule for Lot 10. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Intelligence Systems Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory, San Jose, California, was awarded a $7 million contract for the Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload Global Hawk objective performance incentive payment. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, Aerospace Systems Sector, San Diego, California, was awarded a $20 million contract modification to provide replenishment spares relative to the Global Hawk Block 20 battlefield airborne communications node joint urgent operational need effort. Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity.