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  • 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, RapidSOS to Integrate Emergency Tech Platforms for First Responders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, RapidSOS to Integrate Emergency Tech Platforms for First Responders

    Northrop Grumman and RapidSOS have partnered to integrate the companies’ emergency technology platforms in an effort to help first responders determine the location of distressed callers who use smartphones and other connected devices. The partnership seeks to combine RapidSOS’ Next-Generation 911 Clearinghouse system with Northrop’s suite of computer-aided dispatch products that include CommandPoint CAD, Northrop said Thursday. NG911 Clearinghouse offers public-safety […] More

  • Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company will help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts at Wright-Patterson AF […] More

  • Army Launches Northrop-Built WGS Satcom Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Launches Northrop-Built WGS Satcom Training System

    The U.S. Army has unveiled a Northrop Grumman-built training system designed to educate soldiers on the management and operations of the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite communications program. Northrop said Wednesday the Wideband Training and Certification System is accessible on workstations at the Army Cyber Center of Excellence in Fort Gordon, Georgia. WTCS graduates will be assigned to […] More

  • Northrop Unveils 2018 CyberCenturion Competition Winners in UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils 2018 CyberCenturion Competition Winners in UK

    Northrop Grumman has announced the winners of the 2018 CyberCenturion competition that featured 10 teams of U.K. students aged 12 to 18 years old. The company said Monday a team from St. George’s School in Birmingham won the national finals, which were held at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in London. Northrop named St. Paul’s School and […] More

  • Report: Navy Tests Manned-Unmanned Teaming Through Northrop-Built Fire Scout UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy Tests Manned-Unmanned Teaming Through Northrop-Built Fire Scout UAS

    The U.S. Navy is currently testing the joint operations of an unmanned aerial system with a manned aircraft using the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS and the Sikorsky-made MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, National Defense reported Tuesday. MQ-8C is intended to replace the Navy’s fleet of MQ-8B aircraft and work with manned helicopters on missions such as reconnaissance, situational […] More

  • Northrop Seeks Participants to Build & Test Drone Swarm Tactics Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Seeks Participants to Build & Test Drone Swarm Tactics Under DARPA Program

    Northrop Grumman has kicked off a search for participants that can create and test their swarm tactics for unmanned systems on Northrop’s open architecture test bed. The company said Tuesday it is developing a test bed for swarm technologies as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program. In December 2017, DARPA awarded contracts […] More

  • Steven Esposito Promoted to SLI President & CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Esposito Promoted to SLI President & CEO

    Steven Esposito, former president of SLI Global Solutions‘ government solutions division, has been promoted to president and CEO of the Silver Spring, Maryland-based professional services company. SLI said Tuesday Esposito will oversee the company’s corporate strategy and execution as well as lead efforts to grow systems development oversight market footprint and expand the firm’s children and family services program. […] More

  • Northrop to Implement Army 'Hunter' UAV Engineering Change Proposal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Implement Army ‘Hunter’ UAV Engineering Change Proposal

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $12.7 million contract modification to incorporate an engineering change proposal into the payload technology of the U.S. Army‘s Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop will perform work in Sierra Vista, Arizona through Oct. 20, 2018. The Army Contracting Command obligated $6.2 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal year […] More

  • Navy, Northrop Test New Functions of Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Northrop Test New Functions of Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have jointly demonstrated new functions and technologies of the MQ-8B and MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters. Northrop said Wednesday Fire Scout showcased its manned/unmanned teaming features through station-to-station hand offs of two Fire Scouts and the streaming of intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting data to an Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit. The […] More

  • Report: Northrop Embeds Security Features in Microchip Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Embeds Security Features in Microchip Tech

    A Northrop Grumman facility in Baltimore, Maryland, produces microchip technology designed with security tools that are not available on the commercial market, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Vern Boyle, technology director at Northrop’s cyber division, told Breaking Defense that the company works to develop specific technologies that are only accessible to the U.S. government. He noted in the interview that the company creates its […] More

  • Navy to Begin Operational Tests of Northrop-Built MQ-8C Unmanned Helicopter in Spring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Begin Operational Tests of Northrop-Built MQ-8C Unmanned Helicopter in Spring

    Capt. Jeff Dodge, a U.S. Navy program manager, has said that the service branch plans to start initial operational test and evaluation of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter in spring, FlightGlobal reported Tuesday. Dodge added that sea-based tests of MQ-8C on a littoral combat ship would follow in summer. MQ-8C is based on the Bell 407 utility […] More