Seeking to meet the needs of ever more budget conscious government customers, Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week introduced and began demonstrating a relatively low cost special mission aircraft that can do wide area surveillance and intelligence missions as well as basic transport for a variety of missions. The Air Claw is an “affordable and highly capable” special mission aircraft that can perform border security, law enforcement, disaster response, event security and international security missions, Tom Kubit, the director of the…
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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]
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A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]