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  • CAES to Equip Northrop-Built Precision Guidance Kits With M-Code GPS Antennas; Mike Kahn Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAES to Equip Northrop-Built Precision Guidance Kits With M-Code GPS Antennas; Mike Kahn Quoted

    Northrop Grumman has selected CAES to provide the aerospace and defense company with antennas designed to protect GPS-guided precision weapons from jamming and interference threats. CAES said Monday it secured a contract worth over $24 million to deliver 80,000 M-Code GPS antennas to Northrop in support of the Precision Guidance Kit production over a three-year […] More

  • Northrop Reaches Milestone in Army Artillery Precision Guidance Kit Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Reaches Milestone in Army Artillery Precision Guidance Kit Production

    Northrop Grumman has delivered more than 100,000 precision guidance kits for 155 mm artillery projectiles in support of a U.S. Army program to transform the high-explosive munitions into satellite-guided weapons. The company said Wednesday the PGK technology contains a Global Positioning System guidance kit with fuzing functions to enable positioning accuracy and includes a built-in […] More

  • BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits

    BAE Systems has received an $8 million contract to produce modernized precision guidance kits for the U.S. Army‘s 155-millimeter artillery munitions. New kits will be developed to increase accuracy of in-flight Army munitions to hit targets through trajectory corrections even in a GPS-jammed environment, BAE said Tuesday. Marc Casseres, director of BAE’s precision guidance and sensor solutions business, said the […] More