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Northrop: Buying Spare Parts A Cost-Saving Initiative For Global Hawk

/ September 22, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Northrop Grumman is looking into the possibility of buying spare parts in bulk and early on as a way to shave down the dollar figure of its Global Hawk program. George Guerra, vice president of the company's high-altitude, long-endurance systems, told Inside the Air Force during a Sept. 21 interview that the company is looking into the possibility of ordering spares when negotiating the price of equipment to obtain a quantity price break as one of 243 initiatives being evaluated...

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