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    Whitesell-Green to Help Navy Build Triton UAS Mission Control Facility

    Whitesell-Green has been awarded an $8.5 million contract by the U.S. Navy to build a mission control facility at a military airport in Florida for the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The U.S. Navy said Wednesday the company will construct and connect a 12,200-square-foot building to an existing Triton mission control facility located at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. “The new building will […] More

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    Northrop to Enter Low-Rate Initial Production for MQ-4C Triton UAS

    Northrop Grumman has obtained approval from Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall to begin low-rate initial production of the company’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Navy‘s surveillance operations. The Navy said Friday the milestone C decision represents the beginning of the production and deployment stage of the Triton UAS program. Sean Burke, Triton program manager at […] More

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    Darlene Costello: Air Force Delays JSTARS Recap RFP Due to Fixed-Price Contract Language in Defense Authorization Bill

    A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has postponed the release of a request for proposals for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program as the service works to resolve a provision in the defense authorization bill with Congress, Defense News reported Wednesday. Air Force acquisition chief Darlene Costello told the […] More

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    Navy Receives Initial Batch of Northrop Mine-Hunting Sonar Upgrade Kits

    Northrop Grumman has produced the first of three batches of tools for the U.S. Navy to modernize the service branch’s current mine-hunting countermeasure technology. The tools have been delivered to the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City division  in Florida and are designed to update 27 AQS-24A mine-hunting devices into the AQS-24B configuration, Northrop said Wednesday. The Navy’s HM-12, -14 and -15 Mine Countermeasures […] More

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    UTC to Update MS-177 Imaging Sensor Tech; Kevin Raftery Comments

    A business unit of  United Technologies Corp. has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to update the company’s MS-177 imaging sensor system in efforts to increase the technology’s resolution and coverage. UTC Aerospace Systems will design, build, manufacture and deliver updated MS-177A sensors for potential deployment by the Air Force in 2019, UTC said Monday. The service branch will determine eventual sensor […] More

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    Air Force Christens Long Range Strike Bomber Aircraft ‘B-21 Raider’; Tom Vice Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has assigned the name B-21 Raider to the long range strike bomber aircraft. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced Monday the plane’s official name at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, the service branch said Monday. James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein […] More

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    Report Predicts Anti-Tank Missile Systems Market CAGR of Nearly 4% by 2020

    A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, forecasts the global market for tactical anti-tank missile systems will grow from 2016 through 2020 at a 3.98 percent compound annual growth rate. The 71-page market research report indicates that new updates to anti-tank missiles will fuel the market growth over the forecast period while thermal management of missile systems will present […] More

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    AMI Industries to Produce Ejection Seats for Air Force’s B-2 Fleet

    AMI Industries has received a $14.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce ejection seats that will work to help B-2 bomber aircraft pilots escape in the event of an emergency. The United Technology Corp.-owned company will perform work under the B-2 Advanced Conception Ejection Seat II Safety and Sustainability Program through Dec. 30, 2018, the Defense Department said […] More

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    Northrop Gets Delivery Order for Navy UH-1Y, AH-1Z Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has received an $18.3 million delivery order to supply technical refresh mission computers and trays for integration into Lot 13 AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters for the U.S. Navy. The company will also produce similar equipment for Pakistan under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will take place in Maryland, Utah and California through December 2018. […] More

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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More

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    Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition

    Northrop Grumman will feature some of its technologies at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 138th General Conference and Exhibition in Maryland from Sept. 9 to 12. The company said Thursday it will present technologies that work to support the National Guard in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fields. Included in the […] More

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    Northrop Subsidiary Unveils Network-Connected Ship Heading Mgmt System

    Northrop Grumman‘s Sperry Marine subsidiary has introduced a network-connected heading management system that can integrate with a wide range of vessels at the ongoing Shipbuilding, Machinery and Maritime trade show in Germany. Northrop said Tuesday CompassNet uses a standard Ethernet technology to link the heading sensors and distribute portion of the heading management system. The platform is designed to operate on commercial ships, cruise liners, survey vessels, military […] More