NORTHROP PITCHES B-2 PROJECT TO PENTAGON.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE - 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. has made a strong pitch to the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering to build 40 new B-2 bombers and argued for continuing the upgrades to the existing B-2 fleet. Northrop Grumman briefed members of one of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's review teams about the B-2 program, and on the possibility of building a cheaper version of the aircraft during a meeting earlier this month. B-2 supporters say 40 new aircraft could be built for $28 billion compared with $44.4 billion for the existing 21-airplane fleet. The proposal to build new B-2s calls for a 10-year production program with four aircraft built each year, a source said. The first aircraft could fly four years after receiving the go-ahead from the Pentagon and Congress. A Northrop Grumman spokesman said the company would not comment on the Pentagon review. Rumsfeld has not publicly stated a position on the B-2 program. The secretary is making a complete review of the nation's defense needs and existing programs before putting forward a blueprint blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth through which light can penetrate. for Defense Department spending. Few details of the review have emerged with the exception of statements by Rumsfeld that it would done in months, not days. At least three different teams are working on the review, examining different aspects of defense issues, including quality of life for service members and defense acquisition reform. ``The defense secretary has said he is getting a lot of recommendations from different organizations outside of (the Department of Defense),'' said Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Willette Carter. The idea of building more B-2s has been pitched to the new president on at least two other occasions. Northrop Grumman briefed both George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore during the presidential campaign. The B-2's congressional supporters made a separate pitch during a meeting held a few days before Bush was sworn in as president. The concept for reopening Reopening Treasury offerings of additional amounts of outstanding issues, rather than an entirely new issue. A reopened issue will always have the same maturity date, CUSIP number, and interest rate as the original issue. the B-2 production line involves using new and computerized computerized adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. manufacturing techniques and lower-cost components to reduce the cost of building the new airplanes. |
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