LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lockheed Martin clinches a $1.1-billion contract sought by Boeing and Northrop. In a major setback for satellite-making operations in Southern California, a $1.1-billion contract was awarded Tuesday to Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp. to build a new generation of weather satellites.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | yesterday
Northrop Grumman Corp. is the latest founding sponsor to join the growing list for the inaugural EagleBank Bowl, announced the D.C. Bowl Committee Inc. (NOC)
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Lockheed Martin Corp. has scored a $1.1 billion U.S. contract to build the country's next-generation of weather satellites, beating out rivals Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. in a three-way race.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp., the world's largest defense company, beat separate bids by Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for a contract valued at as much as $1.09 billion to build the next series of weather satellites for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The contract is for two spacecraft, with options for two additional satellites, NASA said yesterday. The craft are...
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Northrop Grumman Corporation has demonstrated continuous combined payload coverage on its MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS). The Fire Scout successfully downlinked simultaneous digital video from both a Telephonics RDR-1700B multi-mode maritime radar and a FLIR Systems, Inc. Star SAFIRE(r) III electro-optical/infrared sensor using its tactical common data link developed by Cubic...
Kinshasa On The Potomac (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
New on the defense tech front: Northrup Grumman's Firestrike system . Firestrike is a 15 kilowatt battlefield laser. The is from Northrup Grumman's "please buy me" brochure; This breakthrough 15kW solid-state laser, based on Northrop Grumman’s proven Joint High Power Solid-State Laser (JHPSSL) architecture, offers the warfighter high-energy lasers designed for the battlefield...The FIRESTRIKE laser...
Fresh Talk (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Global Security (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully operated the Airborne Laser's (ABL) complete weapon system for the first time last week by projecting a beam from the Northrop Grumman Corporation-built (NYSE:NOC) high-energy laser through the precision beam steering system.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it will honor Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, as winner of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The recognition ceremony is scheduled Friday at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's headquarters in Washington. Armadillo's winning vehicle successfully demonstrated some of the technologies needed for a lunar lander...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will recognize Armadillo Aerospace, the winner of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, during a ceremony at 10 a.m. on Dec. 5 at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW,...
Military and Aerospace Electronics (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
MELBOURNE, Fla., 1 Dec. 2008. The U.S. Air Force awarded a risk reduction study contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Radar Modernization program. The study will be performed under Northrop Grumman's existing Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Radar (MP-RTIP) program.
PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
St. Louis personal injury firm Schlichter, Bogard & Denton, best known for representing railway workers' claims, has been busy filing class actions over fees in 401(k) plans at "more than a dozen Fortune 500 companies, including General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman,...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
U.S. missile-warning satellite fails WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Northrop Grumman Corp U.S. military satellite used to track enemy missiles stopped working in mid-September, underscoring the...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
After more than a decade of talking about bringing high-tech jobs to 105 acres at the former Northrop Grumman complex in Bethpage, Nassau officials yesterday said they have struck a deal to do just that.
