AIRCRAFT RELAYS DATA TO E. COAST GLOBAL HAWK'S TEST A SUCCESS.Byline: Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. said its maritime Global Hawk aircraft transmitted electronic reconnaissance Noun 1. electronic reconnaissance - the detection and identification and evaluation and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations (other than radioactive) data from Edwards Air Force Base to analysts at a U.S. Navy base in Maryland. The pilotless Global Hawk sent the data via satellite to the Navy ground control station in San Diego, from where it was transmitted through a Navy information network to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station A Naval Air Station is an airbase of the United States Navy. Such bases are used to house Naval Aviation squadrons and support commands. List of Functioning US Naval Air Stations
The company conducted the test as part of its Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration program for the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman currently produces Global Hawk aircraft in Palmdale for the U.S. Air Force. ``This technical achievement is a critical step for the demonstration program and for our unmanned systems business,'' said Terry Barefoot, deputy program manager for the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration program at Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector. Operating from Patuxent River, the demonstration program will employ two RQ-4A Global Hawks to serve as test craft as the Navy develops maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance may refer to:
(2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular Patuxent River in late summer. The program will also support fleet experiments and exercises over the next several years. Global Hawk craft can fly under computer guidance at 65,000 feet for more than 35 hours, able to cover an area approximately half the size of the United States in a single mission, Northrop Grumman says. |
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