The contract covers the provision of technical support from field service representatives and reach-back engineering to ensure that the MQ-4C is capable of carrying out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Work will be performed in California, Maryland, Florida, Washington, Virginia, Arizona, Guam, Italy, Australia and other locations within and outside the continental United States. The contract’s completion is in May 2026.
The Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, serves as the contracting activity.
The MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude maritime ISR platform capable of detecting, tracking and classifying objects. According to Northrop, it flies higher, longer and more efficiently and quickly shares data to facilitate coordination.
Northrop Supports Australian Military
The defense contractor also received a contract from the Air Force in March to deliver AN/ALQ-251 radio frequency countermeasures to the RAAF. The contract is valued at $175.6 million and includes design, evaluation and manufacturing of the AN/ALQ-251 for RAAF’s C-130J-30 airlifter program.
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