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Northrop Providing Army Helicopter Missile Defense Systems; Jeffrey Palombo Comments

Northrop Grumman holds a $31.4 million contract to develop infrared countermeasures for the U.S. Army to use in defending helicopters against missiles, the company said Thursday. The company recently delivered the first of eight Common Infrared Countermeasures and a hardware system to the Army for reliability testing. SELEX Galileo and Daylight Solutions worked with Northrop to [...]

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Northrop Providing Navy H-1 Helicopter Computers; Ike Song Comments

January 30, 2013 No Comment

Northrop Grumman has won a $9.3 million contract to provide mission computers to the U.S. Navy for a helicopter upgrade program, the company said Tuesday. The H-1 upgrade program aims to replace AH-1W and UH-1N helicopters with UH-1Y and AH-1Z helicopters, the company said. Under the contract, the company will provide the Navy Gen II [...]

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Army Wants Gaming Tech to Monitor Helicopter Operator Gestures

April 26, 2012 No Comment

The Defense Department wants to use gaming technologies in order to monitor helicopter operators’ movements and gestures, NextGov reports.  In a solicitation document, the Army indicated it hopes to build a low-cost intelligent system for pilots to direct helicopters with. NextGov reported that the official solicitation will be publicly available May 24. The Army Small [...]

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