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  • Mike Mackey: Navy's 2nd Northrop Triton Drone Undergoes Flight Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Mackey: Navy’s 2nd Northrop Triton Drone Undergoes Flight Testing

    The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman flew a second unmanned Triton aircraft for 6.7 hours on Wednesday from the company’s manufacturing center in Palmdale, California. Northrop said Thursday the MQ-4C Triton test was conducted in preparation of the drone’s ferry flight to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, later this month. The UAS will […] More

  • Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

  • Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched a modernization offering that works to drive fuel efficiency and enable extended life for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, also known as Humvees. The company said Tuesday that it collaborated with Meritor Defense and Pratt & Miller Engineering to develop the offering, which aims to achieve lower sustainment and life-cycle costs. Jeff Wood, director of vehicle modernization at Northrop Grumman Technical […] More

  • Peter Beange Named Northrop Director of European Commercial Operations; Andrew Tyler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Beange Named Northrop Director of European Commercial Operations; Andrew Tyler Comments

    Peter Beange, a more than 30-year defense and aerospace industry veteran, has joined Northrop Grumman as director for the company’s European commercial business unit. He will be based in London and aim to guide the organization in developing contracting, supply chain, capture and customer service strategies in the European market, Northrop said Tuesday. Andrew Tyler, […] More

  • Louie Lombrardo: Lockheed, Northrop Eye 2016 to Finish SBIRS Satellite 4 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louie Lombrardo: Lockheed, Northrop Eye 2016 to Finish SBIRS Satellite 4

    The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team has delivered to the U.S. Air Force the payload for the next geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite of the Space Based Infrared System. SBIRS’ prime contractor Lockheed said Wednesday that the payload is fitted with a scanning sensor to perform wide-area surveillance of missile launch operations and a staring sensor to focus on smaller areas […] More

  • Northrop Integrates ANSYS Avionics into Black Hawk Display Systems; Simona Kelley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates ANSYS Avionics into Black Hawk Display Systems; Simona Kelley Comments

    Northrop Grumman has applied ANSYS‘ software into the development of new Black Hawk helicopter cockpit display systems in order to meet avionics standards. Northrop is upgrading the UH-60L Black Hawk cockpit to UH-60V using the ANSYS SCADE suite and SCADE display integrated avionics software, ANSYS said Wednesday. “SCADE allows us to take full advantage of model-based engineering, resulting in improved development and testing […] More

  • Research and Markets: Military Laser Systems Market Worth $3B By 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Military Laser Systems Market Worth $3B By 2020

    Research and Markets forecasts that the military laser systems market for the aerospace, defense and homeland security industries will reach a market value of $2.73 billion within the next six years. This 4.23 percent compound annual growth rate is due to increased research and development activity and a move toward self-sufficiency of some Asia-Pacific and European countries, the firm […] More

  • Tom Jones: Northrop Demos Mine Sensor with Navy Autonomous Surface Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Jones: Northrop Demos Mine Sensor with Navy Autonomous Surface Vehicle

    Northrop Grumman has tested a mine detection system that is integrated into a U.S. Navy unmanned surface vehicle during a recent mission test in the Arabian Gulf. Navy and Northrop personnel demonstrated how the branch’s mine-hunting USV could deploy, tow and recover the company’s AQS-24A sensor for detecting underwater mines, Northrop said Monday. The tests […] More

  • Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals

    Northrop Grumman will introduce new protected terminals for satellite communications that the company built to help the U.S. military protect warfighters. The company will unveil three variants of the terminals at the MILCOM 2014 conference between Oct. 6 and 8 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Northrop Grumman said Monday. Northrop is scheduled to demonstrate the terminals in 2015 and the systems are intended to go […] More

  • Tony Marceddo to Lead Northrop's M5 Australian Business; Ian Irving Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Marceddo to Lead Northrop’s M5 Australian Business; Ian Irving Comments

    Tony Marceddo, a former program director at Raytheon‘s Australian arm, has joined Northrop Grumman as head of the M5 business in Australia and will oversee M5’s communications, cyber consultancy and cyber services portfolio. Northrop said Monday Marceddo will also head expansion efforts in export business opportunities for M5’s communications services to the international market. He will report to both Ian Irving, CEO of Northrop Grumman […] More

  • Alleace Gibbs Named Northrop Technical Services Sector's Communications VP; Darryl Fraser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alleace Gibbs Named Northrop Technical Services Sector’s Communications VP; Darryl Fraser Comments

    Alleace Gibbs, director of employee communications for the electronic systems business of Northrop Grumman, has been promoted to communications vice president in the company’s technical services sector. The 16-year company veteran will develop and implement the group’s strategies for advertising, media relations, executive and employee communications and social media in her new position, Northrop said […] More