Northrop Grumman has received a $17.7 million contract modification as part of DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or Tern, program. The modification takes the contract’s total to $150.2 ...

A DARPA illustration of Tern in flight. The military has made extensive use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance and intelligence gathering, but long-range drones have always had one limitation—they ...

MANASSAS, VA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2013) - Aurora Flight Sciences today announced that the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) has awarded it a $2,811,232 contract for the Tactically ...

DARPA has fully transitioned Northrop Grumman’s Tern program to its partner, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), but it appears there are no longer firm plans to fly the ship-based ...

Six months ago, we introduced you to a groundbreaking DARPA project -- a plan that could potentially transform each and every ship in the U.S. Navy into a drone-carrying aircraft carrier. Today, we ...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new drone -- and this one could turn every one of America's 272 warships into a virtual aircraft carrier. A TERN is a bird. No, really. Throughout the first two phases ...