Message posted by Aaron Johnson on July 10, 2003 at 0:10:05 PST:

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (San Diego, CA) has been awarded aUS$ 30 million fixed-price-incentive firm contract to provide for long lead parts/advance procurement for the following Global Hawk low rate initial production Lot 3 items:

one RQ-4A production air vehicle with sensor suite.
one RQ-4B production air vehicle with sensor suite and signals intelligence clip-in kit.
two RQ-4B production air vehicles with signals intelligence clip-in kit, one launch and recovery element, one mission control element and one basic sensor suite.
Work will be completed in February 2004.

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