Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. The modification takes the contract’s total to $150.2 ...

A DARPA illustration of Tern in flight. The military has made extensive use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance and intelligence gathering, but long-range drones have always had one limitation—they ...

DARPA has fully transitioned Northrop Grumman’s Tern program to its partner, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), but it appears there are no longer firm plans to fly the ship-based ...

MANASSAS, VA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2013) - Aurora Flight Sciences today announced that the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) has awarded it a $2,811,232 contract for the Tactically ...

Key point: This potentially-brilliant idea would increase America’s striking power without having to pay for more expensive full-size carriers. The U.S. Navy is seeking to transform every ship into ...

Researchers at Maritime Applied Physics Corp. (MAPC) in Baltimore will help U.S. military researchers develop a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for long-term maritime ...