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Northrop Grumman has received a $64.8M delivery order to provide sensor spares for the service branch’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide low-rate initial production 3 spares to support organizational-level maintenance of the Multi-Function Active Sensors, the Defense Department said Friday. The order covers the delivery of six antenna group assemblies, six wideband receivers […] More
The White House will administer a meeting with several government, commercial and academic entities to discuss ways to apply quantum computing technology in national security missions, Reuters reported Monday. AT&T, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell International are expected to participate in the forum. Jake Taylor, assistant director for quantum information science at the White House’s Office of […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed the initial ground test of a new motor that would power United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V launch rocket. Tested in Promontory, Utah, the 63-inch diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor or GEM 63 will replace Atlas V’s old strap-on boosters starting July 2019 for the Space Test Program-3 mission, Northrop said Thursday. The […] More
Northrop Grumman has introduced a radar technology equipped with an open architecture system and designed to integrated with multiple platforms and missions. Vanguard is made-up of panels that can function independently or in conjunction with other similar structures to form an integrated radar array, Northrop said Thursday. The company has put the system through at least […] More
Northrop Grumman demonstrated seabed warfare systems and the multidomain integration of unmanned platforms during a three-day exhibition of potential U.S. Navy technologies held last month in Newport, R.I. The company said Wednesday it launched sonobuoys from an autonomous Fire Scout surrogate helicopter and deployed micro synthetic aperture sonar on a man-portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of the 2018 Advanced Naval […] More
Lockheed Martin has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to produce an insensitive munitions technology for integration into a weapons system designed to help the U.S. Army fire surface-to-surface rockets. Northrop said Monday it will provide IM motors for the service branch’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System program to help increase warfighter safety and minimize collateral damage. The company uses passive thermal mitigation techniques, […] More
A Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite that launched Jan. 19 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been declared as fully operational and ready for use at the U.S. Air Force. Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 3 transmits data to the 460th Space Wing-operated Mission Control Station at Buckley AF Base in Colorado, the service branch said […] More
Northrop Grumman has flown an MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter for the first time at Trent Lott International Airport in Moss Point, Miss., as part of flight tests. MQ-8C is a modified version of the Bell 407 platform and completed performance assessments aboard the U.S. Navy‘s USS Coronado littoral combat ship in July, the company said Friday. Melissa Packwood, program director […] More
United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket made its final launch Saturday after it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to collect measurements of the Earth’s sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 transmitted signals to ground stations in Norway approximately 75 […] More
Mark Koltz, former manager of operations and strategy for Northrop Grumman’s health systems management organization, has joined Tantus Technologies as vice president of health solutions. He will be responsible for helping drive Tantus’ growth efforts in the federal healthcare market and oversee its projects at the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health, the company said Thursday. Buck […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with other autonomous assets to hunt sea mines, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Fire Scout demonstrated its situational awareness capability and capacity to communicate with a submersible drone and a small unmanned surface ship to perform underwater mine sweeping operations at the service’s […] More
The U.S. Army has assessed the detection and tracking capabilities of Northrop Grumman‘s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System during a live air test conducted in New Mexico. Northrop said Wednesday the IBCS combined data from sensors and different sources of information during the three-week test to create virtual engagements of real and […] More
