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  • Report: Northrop, Raytheon Eye Marine Aircraft Radar Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop, Raytheon Eye Marine Aircraft Radar Upgrade Contract

    Northrop Grumman and Raytheon intend to separately respond to a solicitation for new active electronically scanned arrays for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of legacy Hornet aircraft, Flightglobal reported Friday. The service branch issued a request for proposals in early July for advanced AESAs as part of a modernization requirement for 88 Boeing F/A-18C/Ds. Raytheon seeks to offer […] More

  • Northrop to Provide Beam Radar Tech for Air Force F-16 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Provide Beam Radar Tech for Air Force F-16 Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force has chosen a Northrop Grumman-built beam radar technology to serve as the active electronically scanned array for the service branch’s F-16 aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday it will install APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar systems on 72 of the Air National Guard’s F-16 units in an effort to help the service branch comply with a “joint emergent operational need” […] More

  • Lockheed's F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop's Fire Control Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop’s Fire Control Radar

    Lockheed Martin‘s Viper variant of the F-16 fighter jet has completed its first flight while equipped with Northrop Grumman‘s APG-83 active electronically scanned array Scalable Agile Beam Radar. Lockheed said Wednesday the F-16V features a common global sustainment infrastructure and an updated cockpit center pedestal display, mission computer and Ethernet data bus. Northrop’s APG-83 SABR AESA avionics works to provide […] More