Boston, MA 08/14/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), the U.S. based provider of aerospace-related products and services, have been awarded with an indefinite quantity contract of $300 million. The amount has been awarded in order to continue serving the U.S. Air Force Weather (AFW) deliver space and terrestrial environmental information, products as well as services to the military users, globally.
The dependence on AFW information forecast:
The Army, Air Force, Special Operation Forces and others depend on the AFW environmental information and forecast, for planning various missions, as well as combat operations. It has an enormous importance on airfield, flights and ground military operations.
SEMS contract:
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) will carry on the enterprise-level systems management, engineering and sustainment services under SEMS-III (System Engineering, Management and Sustainment) contract. Also, the U.S. company will maintain scientific projects, logistics analysis and management, transition of new capability to operations as well as testing & field support. Needless to say, since 2002 Northrop Grumman is known as a principal contractor for SEMS.
Delightful comments from Vice President:
The General Manager and Vice President of Northrop Grumman’s Information System, Linnie Haynesworth commented that it is very satisfying for the company to strengthen the partnership with AFW community as both works together to develop government’s single baseline architecture for the days to come.
Northrop provides lightning fast antennas:
A strategic business division of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), Astro Aerospace, delivered 13 lightweight antennas, which self-deploy in a short span of 200 milliseconds to back up Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission.
The antennas:
The greatly configurable antennas are nothing but the stored energy molecules, which deploy very fast. In fact, it will be a vital part of the RCM Earth Observation satellites. RCM program manager, Dan Johansen, said that they are extremely delighted to offer a reliable and affordable antenna solution to the next-era of RADARSAT in order to aid the Canadian Space Agency.
