Unmanned Systems

Aerospace Systems is an expert in the design, development and production of unmanned systems as well as a leader in helping our customers fully use the functional characteristics of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to enable new and innovative missions and integrated unmanned systems into their military force structures.  We also provide tools that help our customers successfully define and develop new concepts of operations that successfully integrate both manned and unmanned systems.

Northrop Grumman and its heritage companies have been in the UAS business for more than 60 years, providing more than 100,000 unmanned systems to military customers in the U.S. and abroad.  Two Northrop Grumman UAS are combat proven – the RQ-4 Global Hawk with approximately 24,000 combat hours in support of overseas contingency operations and the RQ-5 Hunter with more than 50,000 combat hours.