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Northrop Grumman, DRS Technologies, Deliver Next-Gen Army Test System

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and DRS Technologies yesterday said they delivered the first Next Generation Automatic Test System (NGATS) to the Army. A mobile, rapidly deployable and reconfigurable general purpose Automatic Test System suite, NGATS provides unit-level through depot-level maintenance testing and screening of complex electronic and electro-optical weapon systems. The system will initially test the electronics and weapon systems in heavy combat vehicles such as the Abrams/Bradley and will be used for Stryker depot efforts starting in 2012, the companies…

Space

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Congress

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