Northrop Grumman will test and evaluate sensors for the Air Force throughout the development of a counter-improvised explosive device capability. According to a Thursday Defense Department release, the branch awarded the company a $33,280,877 contract to perform work in San Diego. The Pentagon expects work to finish by May 20, 2014 and Wright-Patterson Air Force [...]
Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corp. have each signed agreements with Brazil-based companies to pursue opportunities in precision-machining, targeting the global aerospace and defense sectors. Boeing said the agreements outline work packages for aluminum components and subassemblies with GNS Industry and Trade and RCS Precision Marching and Maintenance. GNS and RCS specialize in this type of [...]
Northrop Grumman’s integrated systems sector will provide three unmanned aerial vehicles to the U.S. Navy, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. Under a $25,709,758 modification, the company’s integrated systems sector will provide the fifth lot of lot low rate initial production of Fire Scout take-off and landing tactical UAVs and one ground control station. The Army and [...]
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won an $8,840,092 contract modification to provide radar system components and accessories for Navy ships, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The company will provide the branch with cooperative engagement capability interface kits and antenna group upgrade kits for the AN-SPQ-9B radar system. The radar is designed to detect and track low-altitude, [...]
Lockheed Martin presented the mobile cockpit demonstrator for its F-35 fighter jet at Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Redondo Beach, Calif. facility. The Bethesda, Md.-based firm said it demonstrated the system to Northrop employees, local and state officials and California-based suppliers on Wednesday. Danny Conroy, an F-35 program director for Lockheed’s Washington operations, said the program has generated over [...]
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $27,058,492 Navy contract modification to provide the branch with a mine detection system, the Defense Department announced Thursday. The company’s aerospace systems unit will perform low rate initial production of an AN/AES-1 airborne system for the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City, Fla. division. The system detects, classifies and [...]
Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a $22,894,335 U.S. Navy contract to provide avionics source data, the Defense Department announced Friday. The company will also provide systems synthesis modeling reports for 34 units and 392 pieces of organizational O-level support equipment for the E-2D Hawkeye. Appropriated contract funds will expire at the end of this fiscal year. The [...]
