NAVY ORDERS MORE TARGETS ASSEMBLY TO BE LOCAL.Byline: Daily News SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. - 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.'s integrated-systems sector has been awarded a $29.7 million contract by the U.S. Navy for 109 additional BQM-74E aerial targets and associated kits. This option is the second in a four-year, fixed-price contract awarded in April 2001. The contract has a potential total value of $110 million. Work on this option will begin this month, with the first vehicle delivery scheduled for February 2003. Final assembly and checkout will be performed at Northrop Grumman facilities at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale. Contract management, engineering and product support will be performed in San Diego. The BQM-74E is a subsonic sub·son·ic adj. 1. Of less than audible frequency. 2. Having a speed less than that of sound in a designated medium. subsonic Adjective aerial target that emulates anti-ship cruise missiles or enemy fighters. The Navy uses the BQM-74E to provide realistic threat simulation to train the fleet and to test and evaluate new weapon systems. Northrop Grumman has delivered more than 7,500 vehicles in the 74 series, including the MQM/BQM-74 and the Chukar chukar Popular small game bird (Alectoris chukar), a species of partridge. Stocked in many countries, it is native from southeastern Europe to India and Manchuria. It has a brown back with strongly barred sides and a black-outlined whitish throat. , the international version. The BQM-74 program is managed by the Navy's Program Executive Office, Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation and Naval Air Systems Command The Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, is the part of the United States Navy which provides materiel support for naval aircraft and airborne weapon systems, such as guided missiles. NAVAIR was established in 1966 as the successor to the Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons (BuWeps). , Patuxent River, Md. |
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