The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) electronic systems section, Linthicum Heights, Md., a $17, 502, 065 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to improve the detection and potential target characterization capabilities of a laser detection and ranging technology.
Northrop will perform altitude flight testing and work with new data processing algorithms.
The location of performance is Linthicum Heights, Md. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.