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  • Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation

    The U.S. Air Force has amended its solicitation for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program to include options for full-rate production following a series of protests and legal action. The service branch said Monday the 3DELRR contract is now comprised of engineering and manufacturing development, low-rate initial production, interim contractor support and full rate production phases. Lockheed Martin, Northrop […] More

  • Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System

    The U.S. Army has awarded a $21 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman to build an enterprise resource planning system for the service branch to manage tactical logistics and financial management functions. The Defense Department said Thursday Northrop will develop, sustain, field and maintain the Global Support System-Army. Army Contracting Command will obligate $1.4 million from fiscal 2014 to […] More

  • Northrop, Heico Subsidiary Enter Licensing Agreement For Inertial Navigation Systems Repair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Heico Subsidiary Enter Licensing Agreement For Inertial Navigation Systems Repair

    Heico‘s flight support group subsidiary has signed a license agreement with Northrop Grumman to extend the former’s repair and overhaul work on Northrop’s inertial navigation systems and accessories. Hollywood, Florida-based Heico said Thursday Northrop will provide parts inventory and test equipment for Northrop licensed products as well as technical data to Heico’s Inertial Aerospace Services subsidiary under the agreement. […] More

  • Northrop, Triumph Enter High-Altitude UAS Production Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Triumph Enter High-Altitude UAS Production Agreement

    Northrop Grumman and Triumph Group have signed a memorandum of agreement at the Farnborough International Air Show in an effort to increase the production rate of high-altitude unmanned aircraft systems. The agreement calls for the two companies to collaborate on UAS delivery, knowledge transfer and program quality and affordability initiatives, Triumph said Tuesday. Dan Crowley, Triumph president and CEO, said the […] More

  • Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $52.7 million recompete contract to Northrop Grumman to provide technical services for the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Northrop said Monday it will help the NCCDPHP’s Office of Informatics and Information Resource Management to manage information technology services, applications, tools and procedures related to the Chronic Disease […] More

  • INSA Executive Committee Adds Five New Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Executive Committee Adds Five New Members

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has added five new members to its executive committee that includes former senior government officials and senior executives from the private sector. INSA said Wednesday it welcomed the five subject matter experts and senior-level executives to advise the organization’s leaders on prospective research initiatives, membership activities, events and strategic planning […] More

  • Northrop-Davidson Partnership Team Receives DoD Nunn-Perry Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Davidson Partnership Team Receives DoD Nunn-Perry Award

    A team of Northrop Grumman and Davidson Technologies has received the Defense Department‘s Nunn-Perry Award for the group’s performance under DoD’s Mentor-Protege Program. Northrop said Wednesday the mentor-protege arrangement takes place under the Missile Defense Agency‘s Joint National Integration Center Research Development contract. The recognition represents the second time a Northrop-led JRDC mentor-protege team won the Nunn-Perry Award after […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary to Help Build Optics System for Thirty Meter Telescope Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary to Help Build Optics System for Thirty Meter Telescope Project

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has received funds from the Thirty Meter Telescope organization to continue support work on a narrow field infrared adaptive optics system for the TMT astronomical observatory construction initiative. Northrop said Tuesday its subsidiary AOA Xinetics will design and build a functional actuator mirror equipped with nearly 400 channels as well as test the mirror against TMT operational requirements. An […] More

  • Northrop Grants STEM Scholarships to 24 Maryland High School Seniors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grants STEM Scholarships to 24 Maryland High School Seniors

    Northrop Grumman has awarded more than $240,000 in scholarship funds to 24 high school seniors in Maryland this year through its Engineering Scholars Program, Maryland Department of Commerce’s MDBIZ News reported Wednesday. Curran McSwigan writes Northrop gives scholarship grants worth $10,000 per year per student who will pursue engineering, computer science, physics or math studies at an accredited college […] More

  • Industrial Electronic Engineers to Supply Control Display Units for Northrop-Built Jammers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industrial Electronic Engineers to Supply Control Display Units for Northrop-Built Jammers

    Industrial Electronic Engineers has landed a contract to supply 3.5-inch handheld control display units for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command‘s Northrop Grumman-built software-programmable jammers. IEE said Tuesday the CDUs will be used on the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 systems designed to provide protection against device-triggered IEDs. “We’ve been working with […] More

  • Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS

    Northrop Grumman has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center and Air Combat Command to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payload adapter for the Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The parties built the IPA technology under a cooperative research-and-development agreement as part of efforts to link existing and future data-gathering sensors with the RQ-4 drone’s airframe system, the […] More

  • Navy Reviews Northrop's Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Reviews Northrop’s Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More