The U.S. Depart­ment of Defense has con­tract­ed Northrop Grum­man Sys­tems Corp. for Glob­al Hawk devel­op­ment, mod­ern­iza­tion, retro­fit and sus­tain­ment activ­i­ties for all Air Force Glob­al Hawk vari­ants. Deal worth more than $4,8 bil­lion pro­vides for man­age­ment, includ­ing pro­gram, busi­ness and tech­ni­cal areas; engi­neer­ing efforts, includ­ing con­fig­u­ra­tion man­age­ment, data man­age­ment, reli­a­bil­i­ty, avail­abil­i­ty and main­tain­abil­i­ty, and related […] 

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