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Posted on 04/22/2008 5:51:00 PM PDT by MHalblaub
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters)
Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp won a $1.16 billion contract to modify its high-altitude unmanned Global Hawk surveillance plane into a new maritime patrol aircraft, the Navy said on Tuesday.
Northrop beat out Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co to win the deal, which runs through September 2014 and covers three unmanned test planes and an option for three low-rate initial production planes.
The Navy plans to buy 68 Global Hawks under the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program over the coming years, in a deal Navy officials said would be worth at least $3.74 billion, in the longer term, not including the cost of ground stations and operating costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
http://www.northropgrumman.com/unmanned/globalhawk/images/GH-Eurohawk-Brochure.pdf
Is it unfair Northrop Grumman works together with EADS on so called EuroHawk for a Lockheed P-3C Orion replacement?
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“Is it unfair Northrop Grumman works together with EADS on so called EuroHawk for a Lockheed P-3C Orion replacement?”
Uh no because there isn’t a single european operator of the P-3 Orion nor is Northrop Grumman and/or EADS working on a replacement for the P-3.
The Navy contracted Boeing for the replacement of the P-3 with a 737 based aircraft called the P-8 Multimission Maritime Aircraft.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/p8a/index.html
Production started in Dec 07, and first flight should be Mar 09.
Took about five seconds of conversation in our office last week to figure out who would win (no inside info or anything.)
Navy had no interest in Boeing’s goofy jet Stream, and Global Hawk had by far the most rainge.
There were other competitors other than Boeing.
That said, there is a lot of work that will need to be done to the “Chicken” Hawk to make it work as BAMS
“Navy had no interest in Boeing’s goofy jet Stream, and Global Hawk had by far the most rainge.”
Actually it was General Dynamics that offered an unmanned version of the Gulfstream 550 for the competition.
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