Northrop Grumman Announces Schedule of Media Briefings for 2010 ILA Berlin Air Show

Northrop Grumman Announces Schedule of Media Briefings for 2010 ILA Berlin Air Show
June 2, 2010

Northrop Grumman Corporation will participate in a series of media briefings during the ILA Berlin Air Show June 8-13 at the Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. Along with industry partner EADS Defence & Security, the company will highlight its key capabilities in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, domain by providing briefings on two of its RQ-4 HALE Global Hawk derivatives – Euro Hawk® and NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS).

Detailed information on each briefing is available from the listed media contact below. Requests for general information on Northrop Grumman and the company's overall activities should be directed to Ken Beedle, director of international communications, Northrop Grumman.

When:
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Where:
Northrop Grumman Pavilion, No. 642
RSVP:

Please RSVP through the media contact listed below by close of business the day prior to the event.


Time/Location
Topic
Presenters
Media Contact
Wednesday,
June 9
10:00 a.m.

Northrop Grumman Pavilion, No. 642

Euro Hawk® – Currently undergoing testing in Southern California, the operational Euro Hawk® will provide the German Armed Forces with a state-of-the-art, high-altitude, long-endurance signals intelligence (SIGINT) system. Based on the Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS), Euro Hawk® will be integrated with a new SIGINT mission system developed by EADS Defence & Security. This briefing will provide a program status update and discuss recent achievements.




Jim Kohn
Euro Hawk®
Program Director, Northrop Grumman


Wednesday,
June 9
11:00 a.m.

Northrop Grumman Pavilion, No. 642


NATO AGS – The airborne element of the NATO AGS system is based on the Block 40 Global Hawk UAS with the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program sensor. It was developed to permit a network-centric approach capable of performing NATO missions independently during peacetime or early crisis. This briefing will provide a program status update and discuss how the AGS system provides real-time data, intelligence and target identification to NATO users within and beyond line of site.

Bob Zeiser
NATO AGS Business Development Director, Northrop Grumman


Maren Dammaschkle
Vice-President, System Technologies & Demonstrators / Military Air Systems / EADS

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