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.
Read More »Northrop Demos VehicActive Protection System Technologies at Army-Sponsored Event
Northrop Grumman showcased how vehicle active protection system technologies could defeat anti-tank guided munitions during a month-long demonstration event hosted by the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center.
Read More »BAE Systems to Test Active Protection Systems on Netherlands’ CV90 Fighting Vehicles; Tommy Gustafsson-Rask Comments
BAE Systems has been selected to test and verify the Active Protection Systems installed aboard the Netherlands’ CV90 infantry fighting vehicles. The system comprises countermeasures designed to intercept rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and other threats in order to protect crewmembers and the vehicle, BAE Systems said Friday. BAE Systems will …
Read More »DHS Certifies Alion Risk Assessment Tool for Federal Facility Usage; Terri Spoonhour Comments
Alion Science and Technology has received a certification from the Department of Homeland Security’s Interagency Security Committee for the company’s risk assessment tool to use at federal facilities located outside a military base. Alion’s CounterMeasures has been approved to incorporate the DHS ISC standards for security measures and protection from insider …
Read More »CACI Gets Extension on Army EW Tech Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments
CACI International has secured a multimillion task order to continue its support for the U.S. Army‘s efforts to develop tools against electronic warfare threats. The company said Monday it will also collaborate with the Army’s intelligence and information warfare directorate to engineer software and hardware that work to secure air- and ground-based military platforms from EW …
Read More »Pentagon Orders Chemring-Made Aerial IR Countermeasure Decoys
A Chemring Group subsidiary has secured two contracts worth a combined $26 million to manufacture special material decoys for the U.S. military to guard aircraft from infrared guided missile threats. The Army awarded Chemring unit Alloy Surfaces a three-year contract for the production of M211, MJU50A/B and MJU-51A/B IR countermeasures …
Read More »Northrop Providing Army Helicopter Missile Defense Systems; Jeffrey Palombo Comments
Northrop Grumman holds a $31.4 million contract to develop infrared countermeasures for the U.S. Army to use in defending helicopters against missiles, the company said Thursday. The company recently delivered the first of eight Common Infrared Countermeasures and a hardware system to the Army for reliability testing. SELEX Galileo and Daylight …
Read More »Boeing's Argon ST Providing Navy Torpedo Defense Decoys
Boeing‘s Argon ST subsidiary has won a $8,563,195 U.S. Navy contract modification to provide the branch countermeasure decoy systems for defending against torpedoes, the Defense Department said Monday. The subsidiary will also provide systems to Australia’s government under the foreign military sales program. Under the firm-fixed-price delivery order modification, the …
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