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Air Force

Northrop Grumman, SELEX Galileo Sign MoU to Pursue DIRCM Market

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 24th, 2011

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Finmeccanica’s SELEX Galileo said they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly pursue the international directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) market. Capitalizing on their unique experience and capability in the development and production of laser-based DIRCM systems, the MoU strengthens the existing industry-leading DIRCM strategic alliance and enables the two companies to aggressively target the rest-of-the-world DIRCM marketplace, the companies said while revealing the pact June 22 at the Paris Air Show. "There are few…

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