France will procure an updated variant of Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) airborne command and control aircraft platform from the U.S. Navy for approximately $2B after two countries signed into a letter of offer and acceptance.

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a $246.4M contract modification that adds production pricing for exhaust pipes of the U.S. Air Force's B-2 bomber aircraft.

The State Department has approved a potential $104M foreign military sale to Egypt of one Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) system for protecting aircrews from incoming infrared threats. The Egyptian government asked to buy an AN/AAQ-24(V)N Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures system for integration onto the country's head-of-state airplane, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday.

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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a five-year, $70M contract to help NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center integrate sensor technology onto unmanned aircraft. The company will perform engineering, production and technical services under the Global Hawk Skyrange program aimed at demonstrating an alternative approach to collect data with the high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft, the agency said Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $163.7M contract to help the U.S. Air Force manage the supply chain of surveillance radars designed for use on the service branch's Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.

Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) federal information technology and mission support services business for approximately $3.4B in cash. The transaction is expected to conclude in the first half of 2021 and Veritas said Monday it expects to merge the Northrop federal IT business with its portfolio company Peraton upon the deal’s closing, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

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Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $4.8B contract to update, refurbish and sustain the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial systems.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a 10-year, $185.7M contract to extend the provision of engineering services for the U.S. Air Force's A-10 aircraft fleet.