The Federal Aviation Administration has presented Northrop Grumman with the Diamond Award of Excellence, which recognizes the company's FAA-certified repair station that employs aviation maintenance professionals who have completed a training series. Northrop said Monday its facility in Rolling Meadows, Ill., received the recognition for the ninth straight year and more than 40 company employees also accepted individual awards from the agency.

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Northrop Grumman will make additional deployments of its Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems for the U.S. Air Force under a task order awarded under an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.  The aerospace and defense company said Thursday it will handle upgrades, modifications and installations of the LAIRCM system for various fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, including platforms utilized […] More

Northrop Grumman will manufacture a laser-based man-portable targeting system to enable U.S. Marine Corps personnel operating in GPS-denied environments to identify and locate extended-range targets. The company said Tuesday it received an initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, a single handheld device intended to help Marines conduct laser guidance […] More

The U.S. Army has declared initial operational capability status for Northrop Grumman’s Common Infrared Countermeasures technology that is designed to provide protection from shoulder-fired and vehicle-launched anti-aircraft missile threats. CIRCM is now available for installation on more than 1,500 Army aircraft and has met the IOC requirements for four helicopter variants: the UH-60M, HH-60M, CH-47F and AH-64E, the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $146 million order to equip domestic and international military aircraft with a system designed to automatically detect and defeat emerging missile threats. Northrop said Friday it will install Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems on fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms, as part of an indefinite-delivery/​indefinite-quantity contract with USAF. […] More

Northrop Grumman has tested a new infrared countermeasure system in a free flight missile trial for the U.S. Army.

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A Northrop Grumman-made lightweight, anti-infrared system has attained initial operational test and evaluation status with the U.S. Army.

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Northrop Grumman has received a $2.4M initial task order to provide logistics support for the U.S. Air Force‘s Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure system. The order falls under a potential $3.6B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the provision of LAIRCM equipment and support services, the company said Thursday. The system is designed to help aircrews detect, track and jam incoming IR […] More

A Northrop Grumman repair station in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has received the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Aviation Maintenance Technician Diamond Award of Excellence in recognition of the company’s maintenance training and safety operations at the station. In addition to the Diamond Award, individual AMT awards were also given to 36 employees at the FAA-certified repair station, Northrop said Thursday. “Our customers […] More

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