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Army

Army To Receive Northrop Grumman SCORPION UGS Systems

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said the Army awarded it a contract to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems to protect soldiers with a remote persistent unattended surveillance capability for improved situational awareness and actionable intelligence. "While SCORPION remains the UGS system of choice in Iraq, Afghanistan and other deployments, SCORPION II's size, weight and wireless performance improvements significantly increase the available mission set for the warfighter," said Martin Simoni, site director of Northrop Grumman's Xetron facility.…

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