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State Department Approves $1.5 Billion In Sales To South Korea, Egypt, And Canada

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019

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State Department Approves $1.5 Billion In Sales To South Korea, Egypt, And Canada

The Global Hawk is one of the Pentagon highest profile unmanned system. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The State Department recently approved over $1.5 billion in three Foreign Military Sales to South Korea, Egypt, and Canada, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Tuesday. The largest sale is $950 million in Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). This also includes program management; training for pilots maintenance, logistics and communications personnel; depot and organizational level maintenance; spares and repair/return parts; operational flight support; and other related logistics and program…

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