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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- DCS Corp announced today it was awarded a task order to provide Advisory and Assistance Services for Global Hawk International Programs (Global Hawk Foreign Military Sale) under the U.S. Air Force's Acquisition of Consolidated Enterprise Support Services (ACCESS) contract. Work on the Global Hawk FMS task order will occur over a three-year period and is valued at approximately $6.2 million, including all priced options....
BUFFALO, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently held its sixth annual meeting for international users of its Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator (CEESIM) systems. The meeting is aimed at keeping users updated on system developments while providing a forum to collaboratively identify potential opportunities for improving system performance, product support and customer service. Military and civilian personnel from the United...
NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3, will be studying hurricanes at the end of the summer, and there will be two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments flying over the storms. The unmanned aircraft, dubbed "severe storm sentinels," are operated by pilots located in ground control stations at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., and NASA's Dryden Flight Center on Edwards Air Base, Calif. The NASA Global Hawk is...
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and Hybrid Air Vehicles Limited announce the successful completion of the first flight of the U.S. Army's Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) in historic Lakehurst, N.J., the birthplace of the nation's storied military airship past. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120810/LA55954-a) (Photo:...
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) airborne reconnaissance radar that provides high resolution, photographic-like imagery, even in inclement weather or darkness, is now available to customers worldwide. Lockheed Martin's AN/APY-12, a dual mode, X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with moving target indication capability, has been cleared for export to certain countries, including Taiwan, Italy, Sweden and Korea. (Logo:...
LONDON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is participating as one of the principal industry sponsors at this year's Waddington International Air Show being held on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July at RAF Waddington, Lincoln. Northrop Grumman leads the industry team providing long-term technical support to the Ministry of Defence, under a 20-year whole life support programme, for the fleet of Sentry E-3D Airborne Warning and Control System...
Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information about hurricane formation and intensity changes. Several NASA centers are joining federal and university partners in the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission targeted to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic...
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for Canada to maintain continuous surveillance of its Arctic territories. A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html?pkgid=13066 Dubbed "Polar Hawk(TM),"( )the...
CHICAGO and BRUSSELS, May 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced it has signed a $1.7 billion (euro 1.2 billion) contract for NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system. Operating under NATO command, AGS is expected to be the major data source for NATO's system for Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR). The contract is intended to provide for the purchase and initial operation and maintenance of five Block 40...
PALMDALE, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Norwegian State Secretary for the Ministry of Defence Roger Ingebrigsten met with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) executives Feb. 29 in Palmdale, Calif., where Northrop Grumman produces the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter center fuselage. As part of his visit to the United States for an update on the F-35 program, Ingebrigsten was accompanied by members of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Norwegian air force, Kongsberg Defence &...
