The Pentagon's top arms buyer said at the Farnborough Air Show that the RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone program is suffering from troubling cost growth, as prime contractor Northrop Grumman [NOC] defended the effort saying that such concerns have been "exaggerated" in the press. "We do have concerns about cost growth and performance in the Global Hawk program," Ashton Carter, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told reporters at the Farnborough Air Show outside London. "Our concern…
Pentagon Questions Global Hawk Cost As Contractor Defends Program
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