Northrop Grumman Receives $128 Million Contract for Production of BAT Anti-armor Submunition.Business Editors HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2000 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. Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (ES3) has been awarded a $128 million contract from Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control (LM MFC) is a Lockheed Martin business unit based in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, Texas. The unit's offensive and defensive arsenal includes air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, naval rockets and missiles, fire control and sensor of Dallas, Tex., for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP-2) of 609 BAT &uot;brilliant&uot; anti-armor submunitions installed into U.S. Army Tactical Missile System (TACMS TACMS Tactical Missile System ) warhead assemblies. Final BAT submunition Any munition that, to perform its task, separates from a parent munition. assembly will take place at Northrop Grumman's new Land Combat Systems production facility at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Deliveries of BAT submunitions installed in missile warhead assemblies under the firm fixed price contract are scheduled to run through August 2002. BAT is an autonomous submunition that uses passive acoustic and infrared sensors to find, attack and destroy moving tanks and other armored vehicles in hostile territory. BAT is designed to be carried and dispensed by the Lockheed Martin Army TACMS Block II surface-to-surface missile as well as ground-, air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, artillery rockets and munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. dispensers. The BAT submunitions are dispensed from the Army TACMS missile by an air bag ejection system. Once the Army TACMS warhead skin separates from the missile, the air bags inflate, pushing the BATs out of the missile body. The BATs then activate and begin searching for targets. &uot;This second low rate production contract effectively doubles our yearly rate and exemplifies the U.S. Army's continuing confidence in the outstanding ability of the BAT to search out and destroy moving enemy combat vehicles, day and night, and in adverse weather,&uot; said William H. Forster, vice president of Land Combat Systems at Northrop Grumman. An initial LRIP LRIP Low Rate Initial Production LRIP Limited Rate Initial Production LRIP Logistics Readiness Improvement Program contract for 304 BAT submunitions was awarded to the company last July. The total production potential is an estimated 20,000 BAT and product-improved BAT submunitions through the year 2011. The pre-planned, product-improved BAT, with expanded adverse weather performance capability against stationary targets and additional high-value target sets such as missile launch systems, is in development and will be introduced into production at Northrop Grumman's Land Combat Systems facilities in Huntsville. The BAT program is managed by the U.S. Army's TACMS-BAT Project Office at Redstone Arsenal. Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector, headquartered in Baltimore, Md., is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of defense electronics and systems, precision weapons, airspace management systems, space systems, marine systems, and automation and information systems. Northrop Grumman Corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a leading designer, systems integrator and manufacturer of military surveillance and combat aircraft, defense electronics and systems, airspace management systems, information systems, marine systems, precision weapons, space systems, and commercial and military aerostructures. NOTE TO EDITORS: LEARN MORE ABOUT NORTHROP GRUMMAN. Northrop Grumman news releases, product information, photos and video clips are available on the Internet at: http://www.northrop-grumman.com/ GET NORTHROP GRUMMAN NEWS BY E-MAIL e-mail: see electronic mail. in full electronic mail Messages and other data exchanged between individuals using computers in a network. : Members of the news media may receive our news releases via e-mail by contacting gaarre@mail.northgrum.com. |
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