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Comms
Northrop Grumman awarded $265 million USAF airborne comms contract - News
September 06, 2017
HERNDON, Va. Northrop Grumman has won a contract worth $265 million from the U.S. Air Force to handle aircraft maintenance and logistics support of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman, Boeing win new intercontinental ballistic missile system contracts - News
August 22, 2017
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. Air Force officials selected Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase of its Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapon system program. The GBSD is the weapon system replacement for the aging LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM.
Comms
Air Force taps Northrop Grumman to upgrade radio terminals in E-8C Joint STARS fleet - News
August 08, 2017
MELBOURNE, Fla. U.S. Air Force officials selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to upgrade existing radio terminals aboard the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) fleet and replace them with Air Force Tactical Receive System-Ruggedized (AFTRS-R) terminals.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman inks torpedo contract with U.S. Navy - News
July 07, 2017
FALLS CHURCH, Va. The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a $9.6 million contract, with options up to $40.5 million, to produce the transducer array/nose shell assembly of the MK 48 heavyweight torpedo, the main offensive weapon deployed from all U.S. Navy submarines.
Unmanned
Northrop Grumman delivers mid-boom assemblies for space telescope - News
June 28, 2017
CARPINTERIA, Calif. Northrop Grumman has delivered the mid-boom assemblies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope; the two boom assemblies will help deploy the large sunshield once the Webb is in orbit.
Cyber
Northrop Grumman, UTC Aerospace announce technology pact - News
June 21, 2017
PARIS AIR SHOW. Northrop Grumman and UTC Aerospace Systems announced at the Air Show that they would be joining forces to collaborate on products and systems to better serve their joint customers.
Radar/EW
U.S. Air Force to upgrade F-16 AESA radar - News
June 09, 2017
BALTIMORE, Md. The U.S. Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman?s APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) as the active electronically scanned array (AESA) for its planned radar upgrade on its F-16 fighter aircraft. Northrop Grumman will upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense.
