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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Division has accepted the potential sale of an anti-drone system to Qatar in a deal valued at $1 billion, the Pentagon mentioned on Tuesday.
The principal contractors can be Raytheon Applied sciences (NYSE:) Corp, SRC and Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE:), the Pentagon mentioned in an announcement. It added that the Pentagon’s Protection Safety Cooperation Company notified Congress of the potential sale on Tuesday.
(This story’s headline and first paragraph have been corrected to indicate that the sale shouldn’t be of drones, however a system to defeat drones)
