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Air Force

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint STARS, Global Hawk Interoperability

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) and the RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), according to a company statement. The exchange is the first collaborative effort to stream ground moving target radar data from a Global Hawk Block 40 to a Joint STARS aircraft. Information can then be relayed from Joint STARS to…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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