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Flight Path: 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.  Corp. was chosen by the U.S. Air Force to provide 30 high-accuracy LN-120G stellar navigation systems A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking.  for the RC-135 family of reconnaissance This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
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 aircrafts. The LN-120G can track stars during the day and night and provide accurate positioning information on them. This in turns helps in determining exact positioning information on enemy targets. The new technology will replace its LN-20 stellar navigation systems that has used mechanical gyroscopes and accelerometers for over 30 years.
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Title Annotation:Northrop Grumman Corp to provide navigation systems to Air Force
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 8, 2005
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