Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has won a $173,643,542 contract with the U.S. Air Force to sustain the LITENING targeting pod system, which externally attaches to several aircraft and includes an infrared sensor. The Defense Department announced Thursday that the award was structured as a firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable-no-fee, time and material contract. The... 

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a $284,439,355 U.S. Air Force contract to move into the advanced procurement phase of a space-based infrared satellite program. This fixed-price incentive firm target contract covers geosynchronous orbit satellites five and six, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed will perform work in Sunnyvale, Calif. through... 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $463 million contract to upgrade components for U.S. Air Force infrared countermeasures systems, the Defense Department announced Friday. The company’s systems segment will perform depot-level work on 20 components of the AN/AAQ-24(V) Large Aircraft Infrared system. Work under the requirements contract will... 

BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) have both won U.S. Army contracts to develop technology for missile-jamming lasers, the Defense Department announced Monday. BAE won $38,010,103 and Northrop won $31,359,202 under cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts to support the Common Infrared Countermeasure Program. The CIRCM program is worth a minimum... 

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) subsidiary Electric Boat has won a $32.9 million contract modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the CO, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized... 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a U.S. Navy contract to provide advanced threat warning sensors to upgrade the Navy’s large aircraft infrared countermeasures system. The company will deliver 24 ATW sensors and five processors for integration onboard CH-53 aircraft. The ATW sensor is form-fit and A-kit compatible with the currently deployed... 

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) a $135 million contract to develop a long-wave infrared detection system that targets airborne vehicles in a radar-denied environment. The company will also engineer and manufacture the F/A-18E/F infrared search and track system on the cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price contract. The contract was... 

BAE Systems has won a task order to provide the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps with a system of infrared sensors that provide 24-hour all-weather visibility to vehicle operators. BAE Systems has won more than $140 million in orders for the driver’s vision enhancer family of systems under a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract...