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    Northrop Awarded $406M AFRL InSITE Intell Systems Modernization Contract; Rebecca Torzone Quoted

    Northrop Grumman will help the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate update its intelligence information platforms under a potential $406 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will support the service’s Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements program through the contract. InSITE seeks to help AFRL/RI modernize its capabilities to collect, share and analyze intelligence […] More

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    NASA, James Webb Space Telescope Team to Receive Space Club Award

    NASA and a Northrop Grumman-led industry team that built the James Webb Space Telescope will be presented with the National Space Club and Foundation’s highest award, the 2023 Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy. The recognition is for the program’s contribution to the advancement of U.S. astronautics after the telescope completed the first-ever deployment of sunshield […] More

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    Northrop, NRL Demo Scaled Electronic Attack Capability for Smaller Ships

    Northrop Grumman and the Naval Research Laboratory have conducted an at-sea demonstration of key components of an electronic attack prototype system designed to equip smaller naval vessels with anti-ship missile defense capabilities. The Ultra-Lite Electronic Attack system is a size, weight and power-optimized platform designed to integrate Northrop’s transceiver technology into NRL’s expeditionary EA antenna, […] More

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    Former Northrop Exec Chris Kinman to Join Momentus as Chief Commercial Officer

    Commercial space company Momentus named Chris Kinman, who has over 30 years of government and industry experience, as chief commercial officer, effective from Jan. 9.  Kinman previously served as senior business development executive for Northrop Grumman‘s space sector business, where he led the business development team in the capture of space-related opportunities with the intelligence and […] More

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    Northrop Demos Communications Capabilities of RAPTR Sensor, Mini-CNI Tech on Black Hawk

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated the capability of the Re Scalable Aperture for Precision Targeting Radar and Mini-Communications, Navigation, Identification system to transmit communications and sensor data while onboard a flying UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The company said Monday its RAPTR sensor and Mini-CNI system performed air-to-ground communications while carrying out air-to-air target searching and tracking functions […] More

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    Northrop Secures Contract Modification to Overhaul NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite Instrument

    Northrop Grumman will refurbish a component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System to allow for its use on another agency program. JPSS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Engineering Development Unit refurbishment work is under a sole source contract modification from NASA worth $13.3 million, raising the total contract value to $579.8 […] More

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    Northrop Receives NASA Contract to Help Operate Webb Space Telescope

    Northrop Grumman will conduct phase E operations and maintenance work on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope under a $31.2 million contract. The company will check JWST systems performance, perform flight software updates and make safety recommendations as part of the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the space agency said Thursday. Services under the sole-source award are scheduled to […] More

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    Northrop to Modernize Hypersonics Manufacturing Infrastructure With Air Force Funds

    The Air Force Research Laboratory granted funding to Northrop Grumman to support expanded production of hypersonic weapons at its facility in Elkton, Maryland. The company said Tuesday AFRL’s Manufacturing and Industrial Technology Division awarded Northrop $8.8 million to make the enhancements to its manufacturing technology, which involves both traditional and novel techniques combined with digital […] More

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    Northrop, Navy Complete 4th Extended-Range Missile Flight Test

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have concluded the fourth flight test of a guided air-launched missile at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the coast of California, where the weapon demonstrated its target engagement capability. The AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range was launched from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft and engaged a […] More

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    NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes Uncrewed Artemis I Mission

    NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft returned to Earth and made a parachute-assisted splashdown on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after 25.5 days of traveling around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an unmanned flight test that took off on Nov. 16 from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in […] More

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    Northrop Vet Bruce Brooke Named Chief Growth Officer at FWG

    Bruce Brooke, an 18-year veteran of Northrop Grumman, has been appointed chief growth officer at Washington, D.C.-based information technology and cybersecurity services provider FWG Solutions, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. He brings three decades of industry experience to the Small Business Administration-certified 8(a) contractor and will be responsible for helping drive the company’s market footprint expansion […] More

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    Northrop Demos Sensor Tech at Military Installation; Jennifer Walsmith Quoted

    Northrop Grumman has showcased the potential of a company-built sensing technology to support data transmission and sharing in military operations. The Converged Sensor demonstration took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland and applied the system to a mission scenario using ground test equipment for radio frequencies, the company said Tuesday. The sensor, […] More