Contract: Northrop, $8.7M

Northrop Grumman is being awarded an $8,743,239 modification to a previously awarded contract to provide additional operations and maintenance support for the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md. and San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed in November 2009. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/23/09). Gulf Coast note: Global Hawks are made in part in Moss Point, Miss.