
The Marine Corps has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $958 million deal for 30 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radars (G/ATOR) to move the program into full-rate production, the Pentagon announced Friday. Northrop Grumman’s G/ATOR recently completed initial operational tests for the first two blocks of its new mobile 360-degree radar system, with six of the eight units previously delivered already in the field. G/ATOR is the Marine Corps’ new advanced, multi-mission Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar designed to better defend…