Going for it.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. will submit a bid for the U.S. Air Force's $40 billion aerial refueling Aerial refueling, also called Air refueling or in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR) or (in the UK) tanking. Note that AAR also stands for "After Action Review" (de-briefing) and in aviation, IFR also stands for tanker program after threatening last month to pull out of what it had called an unfair competition. The Los Angeles-based defense contractors Noun 1. defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; called the government's latest request for proposal "a very competitive offering that fully supports the Air Force's tanker mission." Northrop is partnering with Airbus, a unit of Netherlands-based European Aeronautic aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Defense and Space Company, to compete for the contract
against Boeing Co.
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