Northrop Grumman's [NOC] effort to upgrade the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber's computer and electronics systems is well under way, the company said recently. "We've never had a processor upgrade," Dave Mazur, vice president of long-range strike at Northrop Grumman, told reporters during a Sept. 17 briefing at the Air Force Association's annual conference in Washington. "The iPod you carry around has more processing power than a computer on a B-2," he added. The aircraft has been in the Air Force…
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