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  • NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes Uncrewed Artemis I Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • Northrop Vet Bruce Brooke Named Chief Growth Officer at FWG - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • Northrop Demos Sensor Tech at Military Installation; Jennifer Walsmith Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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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

  • Northrop-Built IBCS Engages Patriot Missile With Lockheed's RIG-360 Prototype; Christine Harbison Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built IBCS Engages Patriot Missile With Lockheed’s RIG-360 Prototype; Christine Harbison Quoted

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated the capability of the Integrated Battle Command System to work with a networked sensor and effector during two live target tests at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. IBCS engaged a cruise missile target tracked by a Sentinel radar using the Lockheed Martin-built Remote Interceptor Guidance prototype, RIG-360, during the first […] More

  • Northrop, Army Test Fire C2 System for Counter-UAS Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Army Test Fire C2 System for Counter-UAS Assets

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the command and control functions of its short-range counter unmanned aerial systems. The forward area air defense command and control system detected and intercepted weapons during the U.S. Army’s live fire testing at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the aerospace and defense company said Tuesday. The system of systems evaluation […] More

  • Northrop Demos TITAN Pre-Prototype Space-Ground System at Army Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos TITAN Pre-Prototype Space-Ground System at Army Experiment

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated at a military networked warfare exercise the preliminary model of a tactical ground station space-ground prototype it is building under a U.S. Army program. At the Project Convergence event, the semi-autonomous, mobile Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node pre-prototype system showcased its ability to process data from various commercial and military space systems […] More

  • Shue-Jane Thompson Promoted to Managing Partner at IBM Consulting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shue-Jane Thompson Promoted to Managing Partner at IBM Consulting

    Shue-Jane Thompson, formerly a vice president and senior partner at IBM, has been promoted to managing partner responsible for leading the information technology company’s professional services and consulting arm. According to her LinkedIn post published Tuesday, Thompson oversees IBM Consulting’s global deals and strategic sales strategies in her new role. Thompson initially joined IBM as […] More

  • Northrop Lands Navy Torpedo Propellant Manufacturing Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands Navy Torpedo Propellant Manufacturing Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a three-year, $9 million contract to produce an initiating propellant for the U.S. Navy’s MK 48 torpedo, an underwater weapon equipped with sonar technology for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare missions. The Navy solicited services from only one company to address the requirement and issued a $2.2 million initial delivery order […] More

  • Northrop Launches 7th Space Station Resupply Mission Under NASA CRS-2 Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Launches 7th Space Station Resupply Mission Under NASA CRS-2 Contract

    Northrop Grumman kicked off a seventh cargo flight under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract on Monday morning to deliver over 8,200 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed ‘S.S. Sally Ride’ after the first American woman to reach space, launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multidomain Air Defense Capabilities at Project Convergence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Multidomain Air Defense Capabilities at Project Convergence

    Northrop Grumman has showcased at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2022 a range of systems designed to deliver multidomain detection, tracking and engagement capabilities to the U.S. military. The company said Thursday it conducted three experiments to demonstrate the integration of network-connected air defense systems into multi-service operations in support of the Department of Defense’s […] More

  • USSF-44 National Security Mission Lifts Off Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSF-44 National Security Mission Lifts Off Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy

    A National Security Space Launch mission, called U.S. Space Force-44, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Tuesday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deploy multiple satellites into geosynchronous Earth orbit. The Space Force said Tuesday the Space Launch Delta 45 unit supported the USSF-44 mission, which included the Long […] More