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Northrop Grumman Wins Air Force, Taiwan F-16 Radar Upgrade Competition

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

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Northrop Grumman Wins Air Force, Taiwan F-16 Radar Upgrade Competition

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said Wednesday it won a high-profile competition an analyst valued at exceeding $2 billion to upgrade the radars of both the United States’ and Taiwan’s F-16s fighter jets. Lockheed Martin [LMT], which was selected by the Air Force as integrator, picked Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) over competitor Raytheon [RTN], which offered its Advanced Combat Radar (RACR). Northrop Grumman Vice President and General Manager of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Targeting Joe Ensor told…

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