Northrop Grumman bags multibillion-dollar Global Hawk deal
Ten-year contract aims to provide flexibility to accommodate the broad enterprise of activities associated with the Global Hawk programme
Northrop Grumman has received a $4.8 billion sole-source contract from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for development, modernisation, retrofit and sustainment activities ‘for all Air Force [RQ-4] Global Hawk variants’, the DoD announced on 25 November.
The DoD added that indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers numerous functions, such as programme, business and technical management; engineering efforts, including configuration management, data management, reliability, availability and maintainability; ‘related areas of concern’ such as technical refresh and diminishing manufacturing sources; and design, development, integration, test and evaluation.
Additional and more specific guidance will be included within each individual delivery order or task order statement of work.
Work will be performed in San Diego, California, and is expected to be completed by 30 September 2030.
According to Shephard Defence Insight, 42 out of the 45 Global Hawk variants on order to the USAF and USN have been delivered.
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