BAM … Another Win.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Navy to select a Northrop Grumman to design its new surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles. The decision appears to secure the company's foothold as that service's preferred unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provider. The April 22, 2008 announcement also stamped out Lockheed Martin's attempt, as a prime contractor for a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' Predator-derived design, to break into the Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) UAV market.