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Northrop F-35 Sensors Deployed in Bold Alligator Maritime Exercise
Northrop Grumman is participating in U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s Joint/Coalition Amphibious Exercise Bold Alligator 2012, employing the company’s BAC1-11 test aircraft to provide F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) sensor capabilities. During Bold Alligator 2012, the BAC1-11 is being configured with the F-35′s AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the AN/AAQ-37 infrared distributed aperture [...]
Japan Buys Helicopter Laser Mine Detection Systems
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime traffic coming in and out of the country’s ports. This is the first direct commercial sale of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) to an international navy. “ALMDS will enable [...]
Northrop To Support LN-251 Navigation System Integration On CH-53K Helicopter
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on contract by the U.S. Navy to provide integration and laboratory test support for the LN-251 embedded global positioning system (GPS)/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) on the new CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter. The contract was awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command, based in Patuxent River, Md. Northrop Grumman [...]
Northrop Grumman And ITT Exelis Team For Army Vehicular Radio
Northrop Grumman and ITT Exelis have teamed to compete for the U.S. Army’s new vehicle-mounted, software-defined radio. The Army issued a draft request for proposal on Nov. 4, for the Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio (MNVR), which replaces the canceled Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio. If selected for the MNVR program, Northrop Grumman [...]
Northrop’s Joint STARS Takes to the Sky with New Engines
Northrop Grumman’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System’s (Joint STARS) T-3 testbed aircraft successfully completed its “first flight” using new, upgraded Pratt and Whitney production-configured engines. “After three years of design, production and testing, we are so pleased to have this important capability ready for full integration into the fleet,” said Bryan Lima, Northrop [...]
US Navy, Northrop Grumman Demonstrate First Manned-Unmanned Intel Sharing
In a recent U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman exercise, a Fire Scout unmanned helicopter successfully sent sensor data to the cockpit display of a MH-60 helicopter. The demonstration, which took place Oct. 25 near Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., paves the way for improving the speed at which field commanders can make informed decisions [...]
Electronic Warfare Test and Measurement Systems Delivered To Turkey
Northrop Grumman has announced the delivery of Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) systems and a Signal Measurement System (SMS) to Aselsan, the Turkish high technology defense electronics company based in Ankara. In three separate contract awards, Northrop Grumman was selected to provide a CEESIM, an SMS and a Pulseman Portable CEESIM Simulator to Aselsan’s Radar, [...]
Upgraded H-1 Helicopters Deploy for the First Time as a Unit
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Integrated Avionics System played a key role in preparing the AH-1Z helicopter for its first operational deployment, marking the initial opportunity for the AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters to work together as a team. The AH-1Z and its sister aircraft, the UH-1Y, are deployed aboard the USS Makin Island with the 11th Marine [...]
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Advances in Ground Vehicle Protection
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated advanced technologies for ground vehicle protection and situational awareness at the Camp Roberts range. In one of the test scenarios, Northrop Grumman simulated a typical convoy mission leaving a Forward Operating Base. By using the company’s Smart Integrated Vehicle Area Network (SiVAN) and vehicle-mounted sensors, crews in multiple vehicles [...]
