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Northrop Grumman Eyes BAT UAS For Navy, SOCOM, Work

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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] plans to offer its BAT tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for upcoming Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command competitions, a company official said. "We're working on a version called SeaBAT," Mark Gamache, director, Advanced Concepts, Northrop Grumman, said during a recent webcast briefing at an AUVSI conference in Denver. "Up to now everything we've done has been land-based launch and recovery. We're definitely going to be competing for the NAVAIR ISR Services Contract that's coming up." The…

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