
The Marine Corps has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $207 million contract for the low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) systems, the company said Tuesday. Northrop Grumman is to deliver the LRIP in 2016-2017 and it anticipates additional LRIP and multiyear, full-rate production, according to a company news release. The total program value of G/ATOR could surpass $2 billion, it added. G/ATOR is a ground-based multimission active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar that is…