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PTS-P Build and Design Done, Northrop Grumman Says

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PTS-P Build and Design Done, Northrop Grumman Says
Pictured is a Northrop Grumman photo of the company's Protected Tactical SATCOM Rapid Prototype payload

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has finished building and testing the company's Protected Tactical SATCOM Rapid Prototype (PTS-P) payload and has delivered it to the company's Gilbert, Ariz., plant for integration with an ESPAStar-HP bus and "next-generation digital processing subsystem." Northrop Grumman has been competing with Boeing [BA] for PTS-P (Defense Daily, Nov. 15, 2022). In March last year, Boeing received a nearly $440 million U.S. Space Force contract for the 12th Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite…

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