New Global Hawk ground segment could enable greater commonality

By Courtney Albon / August 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM
Raytheon's plans to upgrade the Air Force's Global Hawk ground control segment with a more modular, open architecture could facilitate a more common ground architecture for unmanned air platforms across the services. The company this week won a contract worth $104 million to modernize the Global Hawk's ground control segment. The legacy system was built in the 1990s. Bob Dehnert, Raytheon's senior director of command, control and awareness, told Inside the Air Force this week that the system's replacement will...

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