AIR FORCE
Northrop wins $20M contract for R&D for aircraft tracking
Four bids received for this contract
- By Mark Hoover
- Dec 18, 2013
Northrop Grumman has won a $20 million Air Force contract to conducte research and development new methods for tracking aircraft.
The contract aims to develop and demonstrate a probabilistic, risk-based, flight-by-flight individual aircraft tracking framework to replace the framework currently used for legacy aircraft, the Defense Department said.
Work will be performed at Redondo Beach, Calif., and at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by March 17, 2020.
Four bids were received for this contract.
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