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  • Battelle-HII-Northrop-Riptide Team to Demo Autonomous Tech at Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle-HII-Northrop-Riptide Team to Demo Autonomous Tech at Navy Exercise

    A team composed of Battelle, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Northrop Grumman and Riptide will collaborate with the Naval Surface Warfare Center to demonstrate multi-platform technologies during a U.S. Navy-hosted exercise. The team will showcase autonomy, communications and mission awareness platforms designed to aid battlespace missions in a contested environment on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, Battelle […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Inmarsat Satellite L-Band Reflectors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Inmarsat Satellite L-Band Reflectors

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has conducted a preliminary design review of L-band reflectors for two communications satellites that Airbus currently develops for Inmarsat. Astro Aerospace will work to mature the reflectors’ design before the Inmarsat-6 satellite program undergoes a critical design review later this year, Northrop said Wednesday. Inmarsat awarded Airbus’ defense and space business a […] More

  • Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers

    Northrop Grumman has integrated the last defense layers of a sun shield system built to protect optics and instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope from heat. The company said Monday its aerospace systems business designed the sun shield layers that will work to help reduce the temperatures between cold and hot JWST components. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve manufactured the […] More

  • Northrop to Showcase Multi-Domain Tech Products at Space & Missile Defense Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Showcase Multi-Domain Tech Products at Space & Missile Defense Symposium

    Northrop Grumman will demonstrate a range of multi-domain technology platforms at the 20th Annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama from Aug. 8 to 10. The company said Monday it will exhibit integrated air and missile defense command and control systems such as the Counter-Rocket, Artillery and Mortar, the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command […] More

  • Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support

    Rockwell Collins has received a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide contractor logistics support services for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System‘s aircrew training device. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide simulation and training services for the JSTARS aircrew training device under the sole-source contract. Northrop Grumman built […] More

  • Boeing's Frank McCall: New ICBM Would Cost Less Than Minuteman Service Life Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Frank McCall: New ICBM Would Cost Less Than Minuteman Service Life Extension

    Frank McCall, head of strategic deterrence at Boeing, has said the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile would be cheaper than another service life extension effort on the Boeing-built Minuteman III ICBM, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. McCall told reporters that the U.S. Air Force‘s future ICBM dubbed Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent would provide better performance and support a wider […] More

  • Federal IT Market Vet Sal Fazzolari Joins Evermay as Strategy & Growth EVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal IT Market Vet Sal Fazzolari Joins Evermay as Strategy & Growth EVP

    Sal Fazzolari, former chief operating officer of Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting firm eGlobalTech, has been named executive vice president for strategy and growth at Evermay Consulting Group. The more than 30-year information technology industry veteran will be responsible for helping expand Evermay’s offerings from acquisition strategy advisory services to a full-spectrum government acquisition consultancy, Evermay said […] More

  • Northrop to Support Air Force Logistics Complex Under $61M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Air Force Logistics Complex Under $61M Contract

    Northrop Grumman has landed a five-year, $60.8 million contract to provide logistics services to the U.S. Air Force‘s Quick Reaction Capability support center. The Defense Department said Monday the company will support all activities carried out within an Air Force air logistics complex. Work will occur in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, through April 30, 2022. The Air Force […] More

  • Report: Navy Updates Draft RFP for MQ-25A Stingray Unmanned Tanker Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy Updates Draft RFP for MQ-25A Stingray Unmanned Tanker Program

    The U.S. Navy has sent its latest draft request for proposals on the service branch’s future operational carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling tanker to four potential contractors, USNI News reported Thursday. The draft RFP for the MQ-25A Stingray program was delivered to Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman ahead of the scheduled release of a […] More

  • Northrop, Atlas Elektronik Showcase Unmanned Mine Hunting Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Atlas Elektronik Showcase Unmanned Mine Hunting Tech

    Northrop Grumman and Atlas Elektronik‘s U.K. subsidiary have jointly demonstrated an unmanned mine hunting system during the Belgian Defense Technology and Industry Day trials in Zeebrugge, Belgium. Northrop said Monday its AQS-24B mine hunting sensor was integrated with Atlas Elektronik UK‘s ARCIMS unmanned surface vessel during the tests. Alan Lytle, vice president of undersea systems at Northrop’s mission systems business […] More

  • Northrop Completes 1st Flight Test of Panel-Based Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Completes 1st Flight Test of Panel-Based Sensor

    Northrop Grumman evaluated the performance of its modular panel-based sensor technology during an exercise conducted in April at the company’s flight test facility in Baltimore, Maryland. The multifunction surveillance system functioned both on ground moving target indicator radar mode and on synthetic aperture radar mapping mode as part of the maiden flight, Northrop said Tuesday. The sensor is designed to integrate with new modes and technologies built to […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Concludes Instrument Study for NASA Wide Infrared Survey Telescope Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Concludes Instrument Study for NASA Wide Infrared Survey Telescope Project

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed a six-month study on the wide field instrument for a NASA observatory that seeks to support the agency’s astrophysics research mission. The company said Monday it examined WFI technology and scientific requirements for NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope currently under development as a follow-on project to the James Webb Space Telescope. WFIRST is designed to capture images […] More