Four decommissioned Global Hawk drones will make the short trip from Grand Forks Air Force Base to Northrop Grumman’s Grand Sky location, where they will be repurposed into a testing platform for new ...

A report in the national magazine Foreign Policy indicates the Air Force is considering significantly scaling back its Global Hawk program. The news raises questions about the future of the Global ...

The Air Force and Northrop Grumman are modernizing the RQ-4 Global Hawk with a new ground control station; the new ground station command and control system is intended to pioneer new methods of ...

The chaos and tragic loss of life during the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan not only leaves grief, confusion, and uncertainty but also raises some extremely significant unanswered questions about what ...

The squabbling between the Pentagon and Capitol Hill over whether to kill the biggest of the military's drones - the Global Hawk - is finished for the moment, with the remotely piloted surveillance ...

Northrop Grumman is working to improve the availability and flexibility of the RQ-4 Global Hawk to boost the high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft’s usefulness in any future peer ...

In 1943, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin said that the Second World War would be won by "British brains, American brawn, and Russian blood." Eighty years later, Stalin's formula has been revised. On the ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) have unveiled the first Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Sept. 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NASA's unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), flew from NASA Dryden Flight Research ...

June 1, 2011, 6:17 PM EDT / Source: GlobeNewswire GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D., June 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Air Force commemorated the ...

The Pacific Ocean is a very big and deserted place. From the Western coast of America, for instance, to the shores of Japan, there are no less than 5,300 miles (over 8,500 km, shortest distance) of ...

The maker of the U.S. military’s longest-range unmanned surveillance aircraft will get nearly $40 million to develop software for RQ-4 Global Hawks operated by Japan and South Korea. The contract, ...