Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. The modification takes the contract’s total to $150.2 ...
Aircraft carriers such as the USS Nimitzcan carry aircraft, helicopters, and drones on deck. But DARPA wants to land drones on smaller warships, too. Image source:U.S. Navy. Six months ago, we ...
DARPA has fully transitioned Northrop Grumman’s Tern program to its partner, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), but it appears there are no longer firm plans to fly the ship-based ...
A DARPA illustration of Tern in flight. The military has made extensive use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance and intelligence gathering, but long-range drones have always had one limitation—they ...
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has won a $17.8 million contract modification to continue its support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node ...
Key point: Why risk expensive, high-tech carriers, when you could launch drones from any ship? The U.S. Navy is seeking to transform every ship into mini aircraft carriers. Last month the Defense ...
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