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  • ReportsnReports: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market to Hit $8B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Market to Hit $8B by 2020

    ReportsnReports has projected the global unmanned ground vehicle market to be worth $8.26 billion by 2020, a 32.72 percent increase from the firm’s 2014 figure. The market research firm’s new report analyzes emerging trends and major countries from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa regions, MarketsnMarkets said Thursday. ReportsnReports also examines UGV applications […] More

  • Northrop Joins NOAA ‘Weather-Ready Nation’ Initiative; Ed Sturms Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Joins NOAA ‘Weather-Ready Nation’ Initiative; Ed Sturms Comments

    Northrop Grumman has signed up as a Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador tasked to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s initiative to promote preparedness against severe weather and catastrophes. The company will kick off its involvement by hosting a one-hour digital gathering on Sept. 18 to discuss the topic “Overcoming Extreme Weather” at www.northropgrumman.com/extremeweather, Northrop said Wednesday. Dr. […] More

  • Research and Markets: Directed-Energy Weapons Market to Achieve 23.16% CAGR by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Directed-Energy Weapons Market to Achieve 23.16% CAGR by 2018

    Research and Markets projects the global directed-energy weapons market to achieve a 23.16 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018 as defense budgets and research and development activity increase in certain countries. The market research firm says that research-and-development work will respond to growing demand for new military weapons designed to cause minimal collateral damage. BAE Systems, Boeing, Raytheon and Textron will be […] More

  • Executive Profile: Joe Donohue, Agilex CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Joe Donohue, Agilex CFO

    Joe Donohue serves as chief financial officer at Agilex Technologies, where he is responsible for the management and oversight of the company’s financial operations. He joined Agilex from Northrop Grumman, where he led customer support operations for the company’s ePower product line and was responsible for software maintenance, support, training and quality assurance work. Donohue served as a […] More

  • Northrop to Build Wideband Digital Antenna for DARPA; William Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Build Wideband Digital Antenna for DARPA; William Phillips Comments

    Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded an $11.9 million contract to build and demonstrate a wideband digital antenna technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s radio frequency sensors. The company will work with Semtech and Systems & Technology Research to design a reusable digital common module under the first phase of the Arrays on Commercial Timescales program, Northrop said Wednesday. DARPA wants the common […] More

  • Northrop's Harry Lee a Recipient of NAAAP 100 Award for 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Harry Lee a Recipient of NAAAP 100 Award for 2014

    Harry Lee, vice president of corporate contracts, pricing and supply chain at Northrop Grumman, has been named one of the recipients of the National Association of Asian American Professionals 100 award for 2014. The annual award, given to Asian Americans who have contributed to their professions and the Asian community, was presented at the NAAAP national […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Use Space Sensor System to Cue SM-3 Launch; Bill Hart Comments

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy has completed a capabilities test of the company’s Standard Missile-3 Block IA to evaluate the weapon’s work with a satellite sensor system to pinpoint and destroy a medium-range ballistic missile target. Mitch Stevison, Raytheon program director for SM-3, said Thursday that this test is the first time the Navy used cues from a space sensor system […] More

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  • Northrop's Infrared Countermeasures System Completes Flight Test; Jeffrey Palombo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Infrared Countermeasures System Completes Flight Test; Jeffrey Palombo Comments

    Northrop Grumman has completed a six-week capabilities test of its Common Infrared Countermeasures system for the U.S. Army‘s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, wherein the system operated under aircraft flight and staged combat environments. The company said Thursday the laser-based system, which was developed with Selex ES and Daylight Solutions, uses open architecture to interoperate with aircraft missile warning systems. Jeffrey […] More

  • Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop UAS Duo Logs 100K Combat Support Hours; Jim Culmo Comments

    Two Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft systems have achieved more than 100,000 flight hours combined for two separate U.S. Air Force and Navy operations. The Air Force flew the Global Hawk fleet for more than 88 percent of the mission’s flight hours while the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance demonstrator accounted for the remaining hours, Northrop […] More

  • Northrop's RQ-4 Drone Tested for Interoperability with AF Ground System; Mick Jaggers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s RQ-4 Drone Tested for Interoperability with AF Ground System; Mick Jaggers Comments

    A Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system underwent a flight test designed to evaluate the drone’s ability to connect with the U.S. Air Force‘s distributed common ground system. The RQ-4 performed more than 30 hours of endurance flight during recent interoperability assessments held at Edwards Air Force Base in California, Northrop said Tuesday. […] More

  • Andrew Tyler: Northrop in Talks With Potential Global Hawk Buyers in Europe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew Tyler: Northrop in Talks With Potential Global Hawk Buyers in Europe

    Andrew Tyler, CEO of Northrop Grumman‘s businesses in the U.K. and Europe, said that three European nations are interested in buying Global Hawk surveillance drones from the company, Reuters reported Wednesday. “At the moment I would say that the hottest three (potential European buyers) are Germany, U.K. and Norway, in the sense that we’ve got […] More