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Global Hawk Achieves Another Milestone, Clearing It For Modifications

May 08 2015

USA

The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle has reached another program milestone, reports Northrop Grumman, which builds the system.

The Milestone C approval from the Defense Acquisition Executive marks the end of the engineering and manufacturing development phase and allows the program to begin the production and deployment phase.

The system has achieved the required level of software maturity and the ability to demonstrate operational interoperability with...

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