Australia Wants Global Hawk.Australia has made a formal request to purchase as many as six of 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.'s Global Hawk unmanned airplanes to patrol its coastline. If approved by the Pentagon, the Pentagon, the, building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a five-sided building consisting of five concentric pentagons connected to each other by corridors and covering deal for six Global Hawks and a ground control system could be worth as much as $250 million for the Los Angeles-based defense contractor Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; and improve its already strong position in the emerging market for pilotless planes. The Global Hawk program received another boost last week when Northrop received $20.5 million from the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering to begin production of the airplanes for the U.S. Air Force. And earlier this month, a Pentagon panel recommended buying additional Global Hawks. |
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