Northrop Grumman's effort to prepare its RQ-4 Global Hawk to fly a new slate of sensors in the absence of Lockheed Martin's U-2 will continue, despite the Air Force's decision not to retire the U-2 in fiscal year 2019. "It changes nothing we're doing," Mick Jaggers, Northrop's vice president and program manager for Global Hawk, told Inside the Air Force in a May 24 interview. "The sensor re-host was all about demonstrating the capability to re-host legacy sensors and we...
