Northrop Grumman Corporation.Sid David, manager, business development Northrop Grumman, widely known as a supplier of military aircraft, also offers products and services to the commercial market as well. Besides fire-control radar for the F-l6 and F-22 fighters and the Longbow Apache helicopter, the company's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector also has produced 460 air traffic control systems for 12 different countries. Other products include AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. airborne early warning The detection of enemy air or surface units by radar or other equipment carried in an airborne vehicle, and the transmitting of a warning to friendly units. Also called AEW. radar, the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ) and the Longbow Hellfire missile. As a broad-based enterprise, Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems Sector (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) is the prime contractor for JSTARS and the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. ISS is also engaged in producing the Navy's F/A- 18 Hornet and the Joint Strike Fighter. Rounding our its inventory of products is the EA-6B Prowler, electronic countermeasures aircraft and the upgrade on the early-warning E-2C Hawkeye. |
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