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Northrop Grumman Sees Opportunity To Provide ‘Affordable’ Infrastructures In Asia-Pacific

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, May 30th, 2014

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] sees an opportunity to provide “affordable” infrastructures in Asia-Pacific nations having completed its acquisition of an Australian defense services company. “We believe we’re going to have to put…sustainable and affordable infrastructures in place in countries that, frankly, don’t have anything right now,” Northrop Grumman Vice President and General Manager for Integrated Logistics and Modernization Steve Hogan said May 28. Hogan gave unmanned systems as an example. Northrop Grumman in February finalized its acquisition of Qantas Defense Services Pty…

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