WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Triton will support a wide range of missions for the US Navy, including maritime intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance patrol; signals intelligence; search and rescue; and communications relay, the Defense Department stated.
"Northrop Grumman Systems Corp [of] San Diego, California, is being awarded a $9,580,754 cost-plus-fixed-fee order… for the design, development, analysis, integration, and test software associated with vehicle management software correction of deficiencies and incorporation of multi-integration configuration updates into the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System," the release stated on Monday.
On September 27, the Defense Department announced that Northrop Grumman Systems had received a more than $255 million contract for the production and support of three MQ-4C Triton drones.
