Aurora Flight Sciences announced is now a supplier on the Northrop Grumman RQ-4N aircraft for U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program. Aurora joined the Global Hawk team in 1995, when the program was in its infancy. Aurora’s composite manufacturing plant in Bridgeport, West Virginia, has built the tail sections for every Global Hawk built to date and, since 2003, has also built most of the composite parts on the Global Hawk fuselage. The Navy selected Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman as the prime contractor for the program. In August, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest challenging the Navy’s decision. The GAO ruling clears the way for work to get underway.

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