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Northrop, DARPA Partner to Build Navigation Sensor Chips; Charles Volk Comments


northrop Grumman_BLUENorthrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop an integrated microsystem to help warfighters manage navigation, targeting, guidance and positioning tasks.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the Army has a $648, 000 initial value to Northrop and the potential value is $13.4 million over a 12-month base period with multiple options, Northrop said Thursday.

DARPA and the Army aim to integrate electromechanical and inertial guidance technologies into a single miniaturized platform through the Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator project.

“This microsystem has the potential to significantly reduce the size, weight, power requirement and cost of precision navigation systems, ” said Charles Volk, vice president of Northrop’s advanced navigation systems business.

Volk added the miniature navigation sensor could reduce dependence on GPS platforms and external signals.

Northrop intends to use bulk acoustic wave and nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope technology to build a miniature inertial measurement device as well as a precision optical accelerometer.

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