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Viasat wins Global Lightning contract  

Land March 8, 2024

Viasat, leader in satellite communications, has been awarded a contract from Northrop Grumman to support the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) initiative, called the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program – better known by its nickname ‘Global Lightning.’ Northrop Grumman was awarded a four-year contract to ...

Northrop Grumman supports end-to-end missile defence demo

Land December 15, 2023

Northrop Grumman has supported Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) test of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The FTG-12 test used a stage selectable Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missile system against the company’s own air-launched Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) target vehicle, managed by the GMD Ground System and Fire Control to demonstrate ...

Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to deliver first hypersonic air-breathing missile

Air September 27, 2022

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, in partnership with Northrop Grumman, has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile for the US Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a US and Australia project arrangement. Under this contract, the ...

MQ-8C Fire Scout completes first expeditionary advanced base operations exercise

Air August 29, 2022

Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout, the US Navy’s autonomous, runway-independent helicopter system, successfully completed operations under the Expeditionary Advance Base Operations (EABO) concept, providing persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) capabilities. Capt. Dennis Monagle, US Navy, said: “Fire Scout is the Navy’s only unmanned helicopter with the ability to deploy ...