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Northrop Grumman To Develop B-1 Mission Planning System

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Thursday, March 24th, 2011

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] to develop mission planning capability for its B-1 Lancer fleet on the Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) platform. The order has a potential value of $26 million if all options are exercised, the company said in a statement yesterday. Northrop Grumman was competing against Boeing [BA] for the work. JMPS is a family of scalable, extensible and configurable tools and decision aids that automate planning for sensor, weapon or…

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