Northrup Grumman Systems, Aerospace Systems Sector, is being awarded a $555,600,000 contract for Global Hawk modernization.

The tasks on each delivery or task order will fall into the following categories: management, including program, business and technical areas; engineering efforts, including configuration management, data management, reliability, availability & maintainability, and related areas of concern such as technical refresh, diminishing manufacturing sources , etc.; studies and analyses; design, development, integration, test and evaluation; retrofit requirements; and integrated logistics support. Work will be performed in San Diego, and is expected to be completed by May 14, 2015.