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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.
Radar/EW
Northrop Grumman to upgrade National Guard F-16s with APG-83 AESA radar - News
June 07, 2017
BALTIMORE. U.S. Air Force officials selected Northrop Grumman to upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s with the company's APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) as the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar upgrade.
Radar/EW
AOX awarded WFIRST coronagraph contract from Jet Propulsion Laboratory - News
June 06, 2017
DEVENS, Mass. Adaptive Optics Associates (AOX) -- a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp. -- has been awarded a sole-source contract to provide mission-critical optical technology for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) WFIRST coronagraph instrument. WFIRST is a planned infrared space observatory that will be equipped with a specialized optical-imaging coronagraph that will be able to directly image exoplanets over the course of its mission.
