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Northrop Grumman Nabs $2.3 Billion for Two Satellites in Space Force’s Next-Gen OPIR Program

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, May 18th, 2020

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Northrop Grumman Nabs $2.3 Billion for Two Satellites in Space Force’s Next-Gen OPIR Program

The space-based infrared system GEO-5 satellite (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $2.3 billion contract for early hardware procurement to build two satellites for missile warning in polar orbits under the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program. The satellites included in the May 18 contract award will help fill out the Next-Gen OPIR Block 0 architecture, for which Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are prime contractors. Lockheed Martin won a sole-source contract in 2018 to develop three Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) satellites…

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