Contract: Northrop, $26.6M

Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $26,640,000 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for additional operations and maintenance support for the Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration Program. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed in August 2010. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/15/09) Gulf Coast note: Global Hawks are built in part in Moss Point, Miss.