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BAE Systems to Provide Electronic Warfare Systems for B-2 Bomber

BAE Systems to Provide Electronic Warfare Systems for B-2 Bomber

BAE Systems has won a contract from Northrop Grumman – Aerospace Systems to provide Electronic Support Measure (ESM) systems for use on all 20 B-2 Spirit bombers. This ESM upgrade will be a complete replacement of the current aging AN/APR-50 system. With this award, BAE Systems will now be providing Electronic Warfare systems on all [...]

Northrop Grumman To Repair US Navy SH 60 and EA 6B Aircraft

Northrop Grumman To Repair US Navy SH 60 and EA 6B Aircraft

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) to repair avionics equipment on the SH-60 Seahawk helicopter and the EA-6B Prowler jet. Under a five-year, fixed-price contract valued at nearly $19 million with NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support, Northrop Grumman will repair the ASN-150 and ASN-123 tactical navigation/tactical data [...]

Northrop F-35 Sensors Deployed in Bold Alligator Maritime Exercise

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

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 Integrate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node on Global Hawks

Northrop to Integrate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node on Global Hawks

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $47.2 million contract for the purchase and integration of two more Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) payloads on two existing Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft. BACN is a high-altitude, airborne communications and information gateway system that maintains operational communications support 24 hours a day, seven [...]

Aging Kiowa, Vertical UAS Among Army Aviation Challenges

Aging Kiowa, Vertical UAS Among Army Aviation Challenges

Probably by this summer, the Army will be floating a new idea past the troops for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Not a program of record, but something the Army expects to test in Afghanistan this summer, the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle. It’s a hybrid air vehicle — like a blimp — that can carry multiple [...]

Aurora Delivers First Ship Set of Composite Structures for the BAMS UAS Program

Aurora Delivers First Ship Set of Composite Structures for the BAMS UAS Program

Aurora Flight Sciences today announced the delivery of the first complete ship set of composite aerospace structures to Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program. Aurora manufactures the aft fuselage, forward nacelle, mid nacelle, aft nacelle, and V-tail assemblies of the MQ-4C BAMS UAS aircraft [...]

Northrop To Support LN-251 Navigation System Integration On CH-53K Helicopter

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 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 [...]