Northrop Grumman Receives $114 Mln U.S. Air Force Contract

(RTTNews) - The U.S. Department Of Defence has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC) an Air Force contract valued at $114 million to start buying materials needed for construction of three more Block-30 models of its Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned surveillance plane.

The company noted that this contract, which runs through Feb. 28, 2015, also includes advance procurement of long lead items associated with the airborne signals intelligence sensors that go on the planes, and other advanced sensors.

The Air Force had sought to halt work on the Global Hawk Block 30 airplanes, and mothball the entire fleet, but Congress overturned those plans and instructed the Air Force to order the remaining planes it initially planned to buy.