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DoD, Northrop Grumman Look To Finalize New DWSS Contract By End of Year

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

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Air Force Space and Missile Command (SMC), along with industry counterparts at Northrop Grumman [NOC] plan to have a contract in place for the service's new defense weather satellite system by the end of this year, military and civilian officials tied to the effort said last week. The pending contract will cover development of the Air Force's Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS), and will be closely patterned on the now-defunct National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), according to John…

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