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Global Hawk Contractor Sees Opportunities For Cost Savings

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Thursday, December 9th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic Northrop Grumman [NOC], the prime contractor for the Air Force's RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone program, is studying ways to lower the price of the aircraft in the wake of Pentagon efforts to reduce overhead in the department as a whole. "I think we've got a good understanding of...where some of the cost growth in the program is," George Guerra, vice president and program manager for Northrop Grumman's High Altitude, Long Endurance programs, said yesterday. Guerra said…

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