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  • Northrop Receives Navy E-2D Test Article Inspection Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Navy E-2D Test Article Inspection Order

    Northrop Grumman has received a $31.6 million order to dismantle and inspect a test article of the U.S. Navy’s updated airborne early warning and control aircraft. The company’s aeronautics systems sector will conduct the teardown inspection of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye model to check any critical fatigue locations and ensure the structure meets the aircraft […] More

  • NASA Seeks Proposals for Innovative Advanced Concepts Program's Phase II - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Proposals for Innovative Advanced Concepts Program’s Phase II

    NASA has launched a solicitation for a new round of proposals to support the continuation of projects selected for the first phase of the agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. Present and previously-awarded NIAC Phase I partners who have not completed their Phase II studies may submit their proposals until Feb. 3, 2017, the space agency said […] More

  • Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract

    The Ohio Aerospace Institute has won a $13.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide computational research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday OAI will work to integrate fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, physics, mathematics and computer science concepts to computationally simulate canonical configuration flows and real-world applications of current and future aerospace and weapons systems and […] More

  • Northrop Builds Spacecraft Bus for Webb Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Builds Spacecraft Bus for Webb Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has completed the production and assembly of the spacecraft bus for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope at Northrop’s Redondo Beach facility in California. The company said Thursday the structure is made of carbon fiber composites and works to integrate Webb’s optical telescope, instrument electronics and sunshield. It also houses the propulsion system, communications system and electrical power, and mounts Webb […] More