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  • Northrop Adds Work in Expanded Ohio Composite Structures Production Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Adds Work in Expanded Ohio Composite Structures Production Facility

    Northrop Grumman has opened an operational area at a composite structures manufacturing center in Beavercreek, Ohio, to accommodate new work on aerospace programs. The company said Monday it added 35K square feet of space in the facility during 2017 and 2018 as a result of a $90M contract award to produce high-temperature materials for the military. At least 140 employees […] More

  • Northrop Receives Milestone C Approval for Common Infrared Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Milestone C Approval for Common Infrared Countermeasure System

    Northrop Grumman has obtained Milestone C approval for a technology designed to help the U.S. military counter advanced infrared missile attacks, which means the technology is ready for manufacture and deployment. The Defense Department‘s Milestone Decision Authority cleared the Common Infrared Countermeasure system after Northrop and the U.S. Army assessed the performance of CIRCM in combat scenarios through […] More

  • Navy Orders $65M in Northrop Triton UAS Sensor Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders $65M in Northrop Triton UAS Sensor Spares

    Northrop Grumman has received a $64.8M delivery order to provide sensor spares for the service branch’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide low-rate initial production 3 spares to support organizational-level maintenance of the Multi-Function Active Sensors, the Defense Department said Friday. The order covers the delivery of six antenna group assemblies, six wideband receivers […] More

  • White House to Host Public-Private Sector Meeting on Quantum Information Science - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    White House to Host Public-Private Sector Meeting on Quantum Information Science

    The White House will administer a meeting with several government, commercial and academic entities to discuss ways to apply quantum computing technology in national security missions, Reuters reported Monday. AT&T, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell International are expected to participate in the forum. Jake Taylor, assistant director for quantum information science at the White House’s Office of […] More

  • Northrop Tests GEM 63 Motor for ULA's Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tests GEM 63 Motor for ULA’s Atlas V Rocket

    Northrop Grumman has completed the initial ground test of a new motor that would power United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V launch rocket. Tested in Promontory, Utah, the 63-inch diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor or GEM 63 will replace Atlas V’s old strap-on boosters starting July 2019 for the Space Test Program-3 mission, Northrop said Thursday. The […] More

  • Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture

    Northrop Grumman has introduced a radar technology equipped with an open architecture system and designed to integrated with multiple platforms and missions. Vanguard is made-up of panels that can function independently or in conjunction with other similar structures to form an integrated radar array, Northrop said Thursday. The company has put the system through at least […] More

  • Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop's Autonomous Maritime Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy-Hosted Exercise Features Northrop’s Autonomous Maritime Platforms

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated seabed warfare systems and the multidomain integration of unmanned platforms during a three-day exhibition of potential U.S. Navy technologies held last month in Newport, R.I. The company said Wednesday it launched sonobuoys from an autonomous Fire Scout surrogate helicopter and deployed micro synthetic aperture sonar on a man-portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of the 2018 Advanced Naval […] More

  • Lockheed Selects Northrop for Army Rocket System Motor Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects Northrop for Army Rocket System Motor Production

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to produce an insensitive munitions technology for integration into a weapons system designed to help the U.S. Army fire surface-to-surface rockets. Northrop said Monday it will provide IM motors for the service branch’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System program to help increase warfighter safety and minimize collateral damage. The company uses passive thermal mitigation techniques, […] More

  • Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO-3 Satellite Fully Operational - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO-3 Satellite Fully Operational

    A Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite that launched Jan. 19 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been declared as fully operational and ready for use at the U.S. Air Force. Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 3 transmits data to the 460th Space Wing-operated Mission Control Station at Buckley AF Base in Colorado, the service branch said […] More

  • Northrop Test-Flies Autonomous Helicopter at Mississippi Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Test-Flies Autonomous Helicopter at Mississippi Airport

    Northrop Grumman has flown an MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter for the first time at Trent Lott International Airport in Moss Point, Miss., as part of flight tests. MQ-8C is a modified version of the Bell 407 platform and completed performance assessments aboard the U.S. Navy‘s USS Coronado littoral combat ship in July, the company said Friday.  Melissa Packwood, program director […] More

  • Northrop-Built Spacecraft Launches Aboard Final Delta II Rocket for NASA’s Ice Tracking Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Spacecraft Launches Aboard Final Delta II Rocket for NASA’s Ice Tracking Mission

    United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket made its final launch Saturday after it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to collect measurements of the Earth’s sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 transmitted signals to ground stations in Norway approximately 75 […] More