Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.Aug 6, 2007 Grumman F-14 spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used. Spare parts are also called “spares. sold despite ban. The GAO found that more than 1,000 parts that could be used in the F-14 Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable geometry wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006. fighter plane were sold in February, despite a Pentagon announcement that such sales were to be halted. Iran is known to be seeking the parts for its aging Tomcat A popular Java servlet container from the Apache Jakarta project. Tomcat uses the Jasper converter to turn JSPs into servlets for execution. Tomcat is widely used with the JBoss application server. For more information, visit http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. See Jakarta and JBoss. fleet. Aug 2, 2007 Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. awarded $70 million State Dept STATE DEPT Department of State . contract. Northrop Grumman has won a $70 million blanket purchase agreement to provide security support systems for the State Department. The contractor will provide services for the department's networks and computer systems. The State Department has signed eight contracts with different companies for security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the worth $710 million. Aug 2, 2007 Northrop Grumman to develop unmanned carrier-based fighter plane. The Navy has awarded $636 million to Northrop Grumman to develop an unmanned combat plane that can operate from aircraft carriers. The new unmanned plane will use catapult takeoffs and arrested landings and will not carry weapons. The contract is expected to be complete in September 2013. Aug 2, 2007 Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion