
Northrop Grumman [NOC] has received two Air Force contracts worth a collective $1.88 billion right at the end of fiscal year 2019. The service said Sept. 27 it awarded Northrop Grumman a $495 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. The contract provides for modernization and sustainment of 16 mission and one trainer aircraft, and will support the current JSTARS Program Office and Air Combat Command projections of improvements to increase or maintain…