Northrop Grumman has unveiled a system that aims to provide aircraft position, heading and attitude information to pilots. The company’s Germany-based navigation systems subsidiary also included inertial measurement units in the LCR-200 attitude and heading reference system, Northrop said Monday. Northrop Grumman LITEF designed its first micro-electromechanical systems-based AHRS for the retrofit aircraft market. Additionally, [...]
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Northrop Grumman is building a drone for the U.S. Navy with the goal of having the first conventional unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, Flight Global reports. Zach Rosenberg writes the X-47B drone is scheduled to fly and land on the USS George HW Bush in either April or [...]
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DoD Approves Northrop Hawkeye Aircraft for Production; Bart LaGrone Comments
February 12, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman has been given permission by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for full-rate production of its E-2D advanced hawkeye aircraft, according to a company statement. “With the Navy’s E-2D program of record at 75 aircraft, this decision by OSD enables the production of the remaining 55 aircraft over the next 10 years and provides the [...]
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Northrop Builds New UAS Mission Hardware, Software; Doug Valenzuela Comments
February 8, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman has developed a new mission management hardware and software suite for unmanned aerial vehicles with commercial-off-the-shelf equipment. In December, the company flew a Global Hawk drone using the Mission Management Control System product for an Air Force demonstration, Northrop said Thursday. During the demonstration, a Global Hawk took off under operator control at [...]
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Northrop Providing Army Helicopter Missile Defense Systems; Jeffrey Palombo Comments
February 1, 2013 1 CommentNorthrop 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 Team Building AF Polar Satellite Hardware, Software; David Ryan Comments
January 29, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector has won a contract to design and develop hardware and software for a U.S. Air Force polar satellite system, the company announced Monday. The company will lead a team for the 18-month contract that includes General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boecore Inc., Pollere Inc., Monterey Technologies Inc., Meadowgate Technologies, Perales Consulting [...]
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Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon worked with the Missile Defense Agency to carry out a test of a ground-based interceptor used in defending against ballistic missiles. The Defense Department said the test involved a Boeing-made interceptor and a Raytheon-made component that separates from the interceptor to attack the missile. Northrop said MDA used the company’s [...]
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Northrop Grumman is providing NASA a set of satellites for transmitting images and data from space to Earth, with at least two out of six still operating beyond their planned 10-year lifespan. According to Northrop, Tracking and Data Relay Satellites three and five are respectively in year 24 and year 21 of their service life [...]
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