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Navy/USMC

Northrop Grumman Building Testbed Triton

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday it is in the process of building a Triton unmanned aerial vehicle to use as a test bed for the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program. Northrop Grumman is internally funding the construction of the MQ-4C Triton, a variance of the company’s Global Hawk platform operated by the Air Force. The in-house aircraft will be outfitted with the same intelligence-gathering sensors and communications suite as the Navy's Triton. "The aircraft will initially be used…

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