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George Vardoulakis: Northrop, Navy to Conduct 1st Ship-Based Fire Scout Flights in Summer

George Vardoulakis: Northrop, Navy to Conduct 1st Ship-Based Fire Scout Flights in Summer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman plan to carry out the first set of ship-based flights of the MQ-8C Fire Scout this summer, said George Vardoulakis, Northrop vice president of medium range tactical systems.

“Land-based flight tests of the system are progressing well and… We expect the MQ-8C Fire Scout will be ready for operations by year end,” Vardoulakis said Monday.

Northrop said it has been awarded a contract to build five MQ-8C Fire Scout variants and the company is contracted to build 19 total helicopters.

Fire Scouts work to use on-board sensors for capturing full-motion video, identifying targets and distributing information in real time to users.

The company builds the helicopters to help ship-based commanders maintain awareness over a specified area or monitor a target of interest for long periods of time.

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