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Northrop Grumman Nabs Two Air Force Contracts at End of Fiscal Year

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Northrop Grumman Nabs Two Air Force Contracts at End of Fiscal Year
U.S. Air Force aircraft maintainers from Team JSTARS, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, launch an E-8C Joint STARS during Valiant Shield 18, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Sept. 18, 2018. Valiant Shield 18 is a biennial, U.S.-only, field training exercise with a focus on integration of joint training among U.S. forces in relation to current operational plans. This training enables real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces through detecting, locating, tracking and engaging units at sea, in the air, on land, and in cyberspace in response to a range of mission areas. Team JSTARS, consisting of the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing (ACW), active duty personnel assigned to the 461st ACW and Army JSTARS, provides a unique, manned, joint airborne command control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability to combatant commanders worldwide. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Roger Parsons)

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…

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