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Along with Kreun's award, three speakers touted the community's UAS industry and Grand Sky's role in it.

As a member of the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, Sen. Hoeven enabled the U.S. Air Force to divest 20 Block 30 Global Hawks this summer and transfer them to the DoD Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) Sky Range hypersonic missile testing program on Grand Sky on the Grand Forks AFB, similar to the senator’s efforts with four Block 20 Global Hawks that were transferred to TRMC at Grand Sky in 2021.

The arrival of all 20 U-S Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft at Grand Sky was marked today (Wed) by North ...

The Air Force has sought to retire the Global Hawk at various points over the last decade, but now has an official retirement target for the high-altitude drones, Breaking Defense has learned.

Grand Forks Air Force Base Named as Space Networking Center

The National Defense Space Architecture provides high-speed tactical data transport and supports the Department of Defense’s move to a multi-orbit missile warning, tracking and defense architecture.

The National Defense Space Architecture provides high-speed tactical data transport and supports the Department of Defense’s move to a multi-orbit missile warning, tracking and defense architecture.

The transfer is expected to be completed by the end of July.

The contract was announced in a release from Sen. John Hoeven’s office on Tuesday, Dec. 14.

Hoeven and George Rumford, the director of DoD’s Test Resource Management Center who is working to develop the Sky Range Program, spoke for 30 minutes about the project of converting Range Hawks to test hypersonic missiles. The Global Hawk Block 20s were decommissioned Wednesday afternoon, and Hoeven and company are working on plans to decommission the Block 30s as well.