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  • Northrop Announces Navy's Fire Scout Helicopter Drone Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Announces Navy’s Fire Scout Helicopter Drone Deployment

    The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More

  • Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop's Autonomous Maritime Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop’s Autonomous Maritime Platforms

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated seabed warfare systems and the multidomain integration of unmanned platforms during a three-day exhibition of potential U.S. Navy technologies held last month in Newport, R.I. The company said Wednesday it launched sonobuoys from an autonomous Fire Scout surrogate helicopter and deployed micro synthetic aperture sonar on a man-portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of the 2018 Advanced Naval […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Follow-On Contract for Fire Scout UAS Software Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Follow-On Contract for Fire Scout UAS Software Update

    Raytheon has received a potential $21.6 million contract to continue to provide software updates in support of the 2016 tactical control system Linux cyber baseline of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft system. The company will perform work in Dulles, Virginia, through October 2018 under the sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More