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Monday Defense Winners Include Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems

According to the Department of Defense, “Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is being awarded a $6, 582, 920 modification to a delivery order placed against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00421-05-G-0001) to exercise an option for engineering, technical and sustaining services in support of Taiwan Air Force E-2C aircraft under the Foreign Military Sales program.  Work will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y. (75 percent), and at the Pingtung Air Force Base, Taiwan (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2011.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

“General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) was awarded a $7, 832, 414 contract which will provide a research and development program which seeks to develop an open architecture for modular open systems architecture common back end for radio frequency that conforms to interface standards.  At this time, $230, 000 has been obligated.  AFRL/PKSR, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-11-C-1041).

“Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) was awarded a $7, 189, 632 contract for four adaptable multi-based land/ocean stabilized antenna systems to replace aging antenna systems.  At this time, $6, 657, 099 has been obligated.  SMC/PKTV, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA8818-06-D-0024).

“BAE Systems is being awarded an $8, 372, 580 cost plus fixed-fee contract (HR0011-11-C0023).  This award is for the Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE) program, to develop counter adaptive wireless communication threats in tactical environments and in tactically relevant time scales.  The BLADE program will achieve this objective by developing novel algorithms and techniques that will enable Department of Defense electronic warfare systems to automatically learn to jam new radio frequency threats in the field.  Work will be performed in Burlington, Mass. (63.6 percent); Nashua, N.H. (24.6 percent); and Piscataway, N.J. (11.8 percent).  The work is expected to be completed May 2012.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.”

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