Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. The modification takes the contract’s total to $150.2 ...
Aircraft carriers such as the USS Nimitzcan carry aircraft, helicopters, and drones on deck. But DARPA wants to land drones on smaller warships, too. Image source:U.S. Navy. Six months ago, we ...
A DARPA illustration of Tern in flight. The military has made extensive use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance and intelligence gathering, but long-range drones have always had one limitation—they ...
DARPA has fully transitioned Northrop Grumman’s Tern program to its partner, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), but it appears there are no longer firm plans to fly the ship-based ...
In the next few years, the U.S. Navy may finally realize a dream it has had since World War II: the ability to vertically launch and recover a fixed-wing aircraft from a ship deck. A prototype ...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 29 (UPI) --Northrop Grumman has completed two critical design reviews for the Tern program, a project facilitating the development of new remotely piloted aircraft. Tern is a joint ...
Northrop Grumman wins the contract to turn every American warship into a drone aircraft carrier. A TERN is a bird. No, really. Throughout the first two phases of the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
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