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The Air Force subsequently halted funding for the Boeing project, leaving Northrop Grumman as the sole bidder for the contract by October 2019. [19] In December 2019, it was announced that Northrop Grumman won the competition to build the future ICBM. Northrop won by default, as their bid was the only one left to be considered for the GBSD program.
The Skyborg project is a United States Air Force Vanguard program developing unmanned combat aerial vehicles intended to accompany a manned fighter aircraft. [1] As of 2020, contracts have been awarded to Boeing, General Atomics, Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems and Northrop Grumman. [2] [3]
A procurement contract was signed with Northrop Grumman on 20 May 2012. [2] AGS was scheduled to reach initial operational capability by the end of 2017 with a main operating base at Sigonella Air Base, Italy. [3] [4] From 2016 to 2019, a number of test flights took place in order to develop and test AGS capabilities.
Northrop (NOC) set to offer engineering, studies and analyses; design, integration, test and evaluation; requirement and specification management; quality assurance for the Global Hawk program.
The companies that initially responded and competed were Vought, Northrop, Grumman, Rockwell, Beechcraft, Lockheed, and Cessna. However, by the time the selection was over, Northrop, Grumman, and Vought were all part of the same larger company. Over 700 JPATS are intended to be bought over time.
The Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) is a development and acquisition program to develop a long-range strategic bomber for the United States Air Force, [1] intended to be a heavy-payload stealth aircraft that can deliver thermonuclear weapons. [2]
A 2017 $462 million RC-12X program, [4] by Northrop Grumman, will upgrade all aircraft in the Army's RC-12 fleet to the RC-12X standard, replacing or upgrading all older variants. The Guardrail Modernization program extends the life of the aircraft to 2025 and introduces new payloads to the system with enhanced capabilities.
Northrop Grumman Corp's (NOC) business unit, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., wins a contract worth $458 million for the Columbia and Dreadnought Fleet Ballistic Missile Program.