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| PART II: AEROSPACE OVERVIEW |
| Trent Lott Aviation Technology Park focus: unmanned aerial vehicles |
...A 300-acre park adjacent to Jackson
County's Trent Lott International
Airport is new, but it's already helping
to define the future for this part of
Mississippi, and perhaps the rest of the
Gulf Coast.
...It's first tenant is Northrop
Grumman. That in itself is pretty good
for a brand new technology park. But
more significant is the type of
Northrop operation the Moss Point
park landed: unmanned aerial vehicles,
a research-intensive, cutting-edge,
County's Trent Lott International
Airport is new, but it's already helping
to define the future for this part of
Mississippi, and perhaps the rest of the
Gulf Coast.
...It's first tenant is Northrop
Grumman. That in itself is pretty good
for a brand new technology park. But
more significant is the type of
Northrop operation the Moss Point
park landed: unmanned aerial vehicles,
a research-intensive, cutting-edge,
Northrop Grumman CEO Ron Sugar, left, and
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., talk while looking at a
Fire Scout during the grand opening of the
Unmanned System Center in Moss Point in
April 2006. Northrop Grumman photo
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., talk while looking at a
Fire Scout during the grand opening of the
Unmanned System Center in Moss Point in
April 2006. Northrop Grumman photo
growing portion of the aerospace industry.
...The most industrialized county in Mississippi, humbled in the earlier part of
this decade by the closing of several mills, has managed to leap-frog into the
future in a modest, though significant way.
At the Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Unmanned System Center,
aerospace workers will do fuselage work on the Global Hawk fixed-wing UAV
and will handle the final electronics work for the Fire Scout, the helicopter drone
being built for the Army and Navy.
...Northrop Grumman CEO Ron Sugar said as far back as two years ago that he
envisioned more activities for this part of Mississippi, and in fact it could well go
beyond the Fire Scouts and Global Hawks.
...The most industrialized county in Mississippi, humbled in the earlier part of
this decade by the closing of several mills, has managed to leap-frog into the
future in a modest, though significant way.
At the Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Unmanned System Center,
aerospace workers will do fuselage work on the Global Hawk fixed-wing UAV
and will handle the final electronics work for the Fire Scout, the helicopter drone
being built for the Army and Navy.
...Northrop Grumman CEO Ron Sugar said as far back as two years ago that he
envisioned more activities for this part of Mississippi, and in fact it could well go
beyond the Fire Scouts and Global Hawks.
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