
The Army has selected Griffon Aerospace, Northrop Grumman [NOC], Sierra Nevada Corporation and Textron Systems [TXT] to continue on its rapid prototyping effort to inform its search for an enduring Shadow drone replacement, the service said Wednesday. AeroVironment [AVAV] was the only firm previously selected for the Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) program of record prototype campaign not to be awarded an option agreement for the next phase of the effort. The Army in February announced the four firms and AeroVironment…