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Northrop Grumman Pitching Camera Upgrade Plan For Global Hawks

Gally Articola

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] has proposed a plan to the Air Force for upgrading the imagery resolution capability on the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles by using powerful cameras currently deployed on U-2 spy planes, a top executive said. Tom Vice, the president of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, said using the Senior Year Electro-optical Reconnaissance Systems-2B (SYERS-2B) cameras would be an affordable solution to an Air Force request to improve the range resolution, largely because the service already has them in…

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