Northrop European Subsidiary Builds Air Traffic Comm Technology for North Sea
A Northrop Grumman Corp. subsidiary and U.K.-based NATS have collaborated to engineer an airspace communications technology designed to help improve air safety in the North Sea’s East Shetland Basin site which produces oil. Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems uses the Internet protocol network to connect its T6 radio installations from three sites to NATS’s control [...]
Northrop to Share Classified, Unclassified Cyber Info With DHS; Jim Myers Comments
May 15, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) has joined a Department of Homeland Security program intended for DHS and commercial service providers to share classified and unclassified cybersecurity information. The company has started the accreditation process to operate as a commercial service provider to the agency under the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program, Northrop said Monday. Through the ECS program, [...]
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Northrop Grumman has chosen Park Electrochemical’s patented composite strut to use for the James Webb Space Telescope, intended to support missions for three space agencies including NASA. JWST is an infrared space telescope developed for NASA, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency to collaborate for projects, Park Electrochemical said Wednesday. Northrop is the prime [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corp. has identified a new type of lunar lander that the Golden Spike Co. can use for future commercial human spaceflight. The low-mass ascent pod nicknamed Pumpkin has a pressurized compartment and propellant tanks with foldable ascent thrusters and landing gear, according to a Northrop statement. Preliminary sketches show it can fit a payload fairing five [...]
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Northrop Grumman has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an airflow modulation technology intended to help power dual mode combined cycle propulsion systems. The technology is designed modulates airflow in an aircraft’s inlet diffuser with either a center turbine engine or a high Mach engine, Avionics Intelligence reported today. Amal [...]
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Lockheed Martin has completed the latest test flight for the F-35 joint strike fighter in order to test Northrop Grumman‘s multifunction advanced data link waveform. The MADL is part of an eight-year development effort to provide a high-data rate directional communications link for the fifth-generation aircraft, according to a Northrop statement. Northrop Grumman Information Systems Defense [...]
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Northrop Grumman has launched the latest version of its Cutlass unmanned ground vehicle that is used to handle and inspect suspected explosive ordnance and other hazardous threats at a distance. The UGV’s sensing system was designed with control and dexterity in mind and its six-wheeled platform is deigned to travel at speeds of up to 7.4 [...]
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Northrop Aiming for New Marine Corps Radar to be Interoperable; Steve McCoy Comments
April 10, 2013 No CommentNorthrop Grumman is developing a radar for the U.S. Marine Corps to detect and track targets in the air such as a fixed-wing aircraft, drones and helicopters. The AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, known as G/ATOR, recently underwent a government test over two phases to evaluate its performance against different types of flight profiles, Northrop said [...]
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