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Northrop Grumman is a prominent company in the aerospace and defense industry, known for its advanced products such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk. This high-altitude, remotely-piloted surveillance aircraft, introduced in 2001, was initially designed by Ryan Aeronautical (now part of Northrop Grumman). The RQ-4 Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle, provides broad overview and systematic surveillance capabilities, utilizing high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors, and is characterized by its long loiter times over target areas.