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By Lorenzo Cortes
Although the Raytheon [RTN]-led team bidding for NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) $3.6 billion-plus prime contract is "platform agnostic" with regards to which unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it can integrate in the proposal, a top company official admitted yesterday that the team is considering Northrop Grumman's [NOC] Global Hawk and Predator variants produced by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, including a "C" version, as candidates.
"The major focus is on Predator B, we are looking at the C and the Global Hawk," Peter Wray, Raytheon Integrated Airborne Systems' director of business development, said in a briefing recently in Washington, D.C. about Raytheon's bid with Britain's BAE SYSTEMS and the Alenia Marconi Systems Anglo-Italian joint venture, designated Cooperative Transatlantic AGS System (CTAS).
BAE and Italy's Finmeccanica earlier this summer signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the formation of a new defense electronics partnership to be called Eurosystems that will oversee joint ventures in the areas of systems integration and C4ISR business, communications systems and avionics...