# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 10 September 2015 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | UAS; Grand Sky; unmanned aircraft; Northrop Grumman |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| Title | Groundbreaking on Grand Sky project represents years of preparation |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/groundbreaking-on-grand-sky-project-represents-years-of-preparation |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2015-09-10|grand-forks-herald|grand-sky-first-uas-park-groundbreaking |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page scan: not downloaded this pass (img CDN 429 — download rate limit). IAT minted from signed-in session. Extract locked from contemporaneous web first-publisher, not Tesseract.
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vXHLTJaJN6V5eWhhGKAB_ObEa0zYttcd

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Brandi Jewett of the Grand Forks Herald reported that official groundbreaking was set for Thursday (10 September 2015) at Grand Sky, “the country’s first business park focusing on UAS technology,” on a $300 million project adjacent to Grand Forks Air Force Base. Construction photos dated Wednesday, 9 September, by Logan Werlinger. Tom Swoyer Jr., president of Grand Sky Development Co., told the Herald Wednesday: “Tomorrow is really a celebration about success. It took a lot of years to get to the point in February where the lease was signed that allows all this to happen.” Grand Forks County rents the land from the base and subleases to Grand Sky Development. A 2-foot-thick concrete pad was in place; crews were marking roads and preparing utility trenches; the original fence would be replaced so the park no longer relies on base personnel for security; guests would test an independent security gate that morning. The park is 217 acres and is planned for 1.2 million square feet of offices, hangars, and data centers. Swoyer called hangar-adjacent land “beachfront property” for a direct pad-to-runway connection. Northrop Grumman, first anchor tenant, had staked the pad’s south end and expected to start its facility in October. Swoyer: every company that has visited in person has signed a lease.

**Kinematic object.** Grand Sky UAS business park (217 acres / pad-to-GF AFB runway; Northrop south-end stake).

**Coverage frame.** industry / test site / military-adjacent

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: Grand Forks Herald staff byline and staff photo on the local groundbreaking.
- Wire reprint status: Staff-written. Not AP. Print page not in the leftover ncom hit list for that week.
- What was excluded: Ceremony logistics except as security-gate / runway-access facts.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged the first U.S. UAS business park cutting an independent security perimeter onto a Grand Forks AFB runway pad with Northrop already staked.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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