Northrop Awarded $1.04 Billion to Continue Work on X-47B J-UCAS

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Northrop Awarded $1.04 Billion to Continue Work on X-47B J-UCAS

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue work on the X-47B portion of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) demonstration program. Valued at up to $1.04 billion over five years for the program's operational assessment phase, the award includes initial funding of $30 million.

The J-UCAS program is an effort by DARPA, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy to demonstrate the technical feasibility, military utility and operational value of networked, unmanned, air-combat systems to suppress enemy air defenses, perform electronic attack, conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, and perform precision strike attacks.

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