Northrop Grumman, SAN DIEGO: Northrop Grumman Corporation's first RQ-4A Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) unmanned air vehicle has arrived at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., and is being prepared for participation in the U.S. Navy's Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) 2006.
JEFX is a worldwide training exercise to test current joint operations. The GHMD system will demonstrate unmanned long-endurance maritime surveillance for the Navy, the Department of Defense and Homeland Security agencies. JEFX will also test the system's ability to integrate and disseminate the maritime intelligence information across current naval information architectures.
China says holds first dual aircraft carrier drills in South China Sea
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