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    Northrop Completes 1st Flight Test of Panel-Based Sensor

    Northrop Grumman evaluated the performance of its modular panel-based sensor technology during an exercise conducted in April at the company’s flight test facility in Baltimore, Maryland. The multifunction surveillance system functioned both on ground moving target indicator radar mode and on synthetic aperture radar mapping mode as part of the maiden flight, Northrop said Tuesday. The sensor is designed to integrate with new modes and technologies built to […] More

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    Ball Aerospace Concludes Instrument Study for NASA Wide Infrared Survey Telescope Project

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed a six-month study on the wide field instrument for a NASA observatory that seeks to support the agency’s astrophysics research mission. The company said Monday it examined WFI technology and scientific requirements for NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope currently under development as a follow-on project to the James Webb Space Telescope. WFIRST is designed to capture images […] More

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    Report: Navy to Release RFP for MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Deployment

    The U.S. Navy will issue a request for proposals later this year for the deployment of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker, USNI News reported Monday. Four competitors under the MQ-25A program will receive the RFP, including General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The companies received one-year contract modifications from the Navy in April to perform risk reduction […] More

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    Northrop to Provide Beam Radar Tech for Air Force F-16 Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force has chosen a Northrop Grumman-built beam radar technology to serve as the active electronically scanned array for the service branch’s F-16 aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday it will install APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar systems on 72 of the Air National Guard’s F-16 units in an effort to help the service branch comply with a “joint emergent operational need” […] More

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    NASA Taps Northrop Subsidiary to Provide Optics Tech for Future Space Observatory

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has received a contract from NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an optical technology platform for integration with an infrared space observatory. Northrop said Monday Adaptive Optics Associates will design and produce an adaptive optics tool for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope designed to capture images of exoplanets throughout the platform’s mission. AOX will integrate adaptive […] More

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    DARPA Taps 5 Institutions to Develop ‘Graph Analytics Processors’ for Big Data Workloads

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked five organizations to create computing platforms designed to analyze and extract insights from large volumes of data. Intel, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Georgia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop “graph analytics processors” under the Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program, DARPA said Friday. The HIVE program […] More

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    MDA Demos Boeing-Built Ground Midcourse Defense System Against ICBM Target

    The Missile Defense Agency performed Tuesday a live-fire test of the Boeing-built Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform. During the test, the GMD system helped guide a ground-based interceptor that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to zero in on an intercontinental ballistic missile target that lifted off from […] More

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    Orbital ATK Gets $90M Contract to Supply Northrop Bomber Aircraft Components

    Northrop Grumman has awarded Orbital ATK a potential five-year, $90 million contract to manufacture aircraft composite parts in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s B-2 Spirit aircraft modernization effort. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will produce 17 hot trailing edge structures and provide non-recurring engineering services for B-2 bombers. The contract has an option for follow-on orders. Steve Earl, vice president and general manager of […] More

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    NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft With Northrop’s Navigation Tool Travels Through Gap Between Saturn, Rings

    A Northrop Grumman-built navigation platform has worked to provide attitude control capabilities for NASA’s Cassini space vehicle in support of the Saturn exploration mission. The spacecraft with Northrop’s Space Inertial Reference Unit maneuvered through a 1,500-mile gap between the planet and its rings on April 26, the company said Thursday. Northrop’s SIRU navigation platform has a […] More

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    Northrop to Help Sustain Navy’s Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator Under $65M Contract Option

    Northrop Grumman has received a $64.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to help operate and maintain the service branch’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop will also provide sustainment engineering and logistics services for RQ-4 Global Hawk peculiar items, support equipment and technical publications under the BAMS-D program. The company […] More

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    Northrop Picks CrossMatch Palm Scanners for UK Criminal Booking System Modernization

    Northrop Grumman has selected palm scanners and related fingerprint capture platforms from CrossMatch to update criminal booking systems in the U.K. Northrop will install Crossmatch’s Livescan devices and L Scan 1000 palm scanners to upgrade at least 375 enrollment and capture facilities by December as part of the U.K. Home Office’s Forensic and Biometric Interim […] More

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    Northrop to Design Hardware, Software for Air Force’s Next-Gen Navigation System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $49 million contract to design hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation integrated navigation system. The company said Tuesday it will design preliminary architecture under the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program. EGI-M will be equipped with M-Code-capable GPS receivers to support the transmission of military signals. Dean Ebert, […] More