Global Hawk Budget Woes Incite Push To Separate Air And Ground Segments

By Maggie Ybarra / August 12, 2011 at 8:37 PM
The push to cut costs in the Air Force's Global Hawk program has Raytheon executives eying a potential reduction to the price of the program's service life extension plan. Raytheon is responsible for the Global Hawk ground stations. Mark Bigham, Raytheon's vice president of business development for defense and civil mission solutions within intelligence and information systems, told InsideDefense.com today that the company is looking at a 75 to 80 percent reduction in the cost of the extension plan...

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