Nine days after acting Pentagon acquisition chief David Oliver signed a memo moving the Global Hawk unmanned air vehicle program into engineering and manufacturing development, the Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $45 million contract to support EMD. The $45 million cost-plus-award-fee contract calls for Northrop to "provide for engineering and manufacturing activities," according to a Defense Department statement released today. Only $5.5 million of the contract funds have been obligated, the announcement states. Inside the Air Force reported last...
