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• Northrop To Start Building Arliegh Burke Destroyers Again

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  The Obama Administration restructured the new U.S. Navy destroyer program as part of their 2010 budget review. The DDG-1000 program will now end after only three ships and rather then having two sources only General Dynamics (GD) will build them. A new destroyer program will be developed. Since Northrop Grumman ...
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• US Air Forces $40bn aerial refuelling tanker contract hangs in the balance

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The fate of a controversial $40bn (£24bn) US air tanker contract hangs in the balance after a main player in one of only two consortia threatened to pull out of the running.
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• Industry and Academia Answer Call to Solve Nation’s Most Pressing Cyber Threats

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 470
  Northrop Grumman Corporation has invited three of the nation’s leading cybersecurity research institutions — Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pa.; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass; and Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. — to join a Cybersecurity Research Consortium to advance ...
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• SECDEF Gates: "We would like to see competition continue in this process"

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 600
  Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, questions Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about the KC-X competition. Sessions represents Mobile, Alabama, the site of Northrop Grummans proposed final assembly center for the KC-45 tanker. Northrop has threatened to withdraw from the competition unless Gates staff makes several key ...
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• Wall Street interrogates Northrop CFO on tanker

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 600
  Northrop Grumman CFO Jim Palmer desperately tried to avoid making news on the KC-X program while appearing this morning in New York at the Credit Suisse First Boston 2009 Aerospace & Defense Conference. Palmer mostly succeeded. Asked to explain the strategy behind CEO Wes Bushs letter yesterday to the Pentagon, ...
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• Boeing could win the Pentagons $35 billion tanker deal -- with no competition

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 791
  Filed under: Company News , Boeing The Air Force, still in need of airborne refueling craft, plans to buy 179 of these so-called tankers starting in fiscal 2011. The $35 billion contract for turning out about 15 planes a year may be awarded by June 2010, according to Bloomberg Ne ws . The Air Force has ...
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• Northrup dropping out of tanker bid?

  
  ricksblog.biz — Authority: 139
  It may be a bluff to force the Pentagon to rewrite the bid specs, but Wes Bush, president and chief operating officer of Northrop, said in a letter delivered to Under Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter that the company “cannot proceed to submit a bid.” Read this
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• Northrop Threatens To Take Ball And Go Home On KC-X

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  Northrop Grumman sent a letter yesterday to the Defense Department threatening to not propose for the KC-X competition when the final RFP is...
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• If EADS/Northrop Wants Out, Keep Them Out

  
  http://www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com — Authority: 112
  Another week, another Northrop Grumman complaint about the RFP for replacing the ageing KC-135 tankers. Aside from the fact the posturing from EADS/Northrop Grumman is getting boring, their ultimate aim in attempting to get more recognition for the A330’s capability against Boeing’s likely offering, the 767, is ...
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• Northrop may drop out of tanker bidding

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Northrop Grumman has warned it wont bid for the massive Air Force refueling tanker program unless the Pentagons draft request for proposals is rewritten. Northrop CEO Wes Bush wrote to Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter on Tuesday that since the Pentagon has declined to alter the request for proposals (RFP), "I ...
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• Northrop Could Withdraw From Bidding on Tanker

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The company wants the Pentagon to change the bid rules, knowing that a lack of competition would probably mean a higher price for the planes.
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• Northrop may withdraw tanker bid (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  Politico – Northrop Grumman threatens to withdraw from the competition for a $35B contract over aircraft dispute. More: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Northrop may withdraw tanker bid (Politico)
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• Northrop CEO writes Pentagon: No RFP changes, no KC-X bid

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 600
  Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush today warned that the company will withdraw from the KC-X competition if the Pentagon refuses to make certain changes to the request for proposal. The letter is posted below and clearly contradicts a story by StreetInsider.com stating that Northrop has already dropped out of the ...
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• Northrop links to academics to boost cyber defense (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  Reuters - Northrop Grumman Corp unveiled Tuesday an industry-academic research group to tackle growing cyber threats to U.S. computer networks and to networked infrastructure.
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• Flats Sequencing Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Bravado

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 120
  Despite equipment problems, schedule delays, and evidence of engineering miscues, postal officials are eagerly moving ahead with installation of the Flats Sequencing System.The U.S. Postal Service’s recently released annual report says FSS “is revolutionizing the way we process flat-size mail, such as magazines ...
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• Northrop Grumman Reaches Out to Academia

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 429
  Northrop Grumman has reached out to three major cyber research universities to help advance research and develop effective cyber security solutions. The three schools, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University and MIT, were asked to join a Cybersecurity Research Consortium. The consortium is meant to leverage the ...
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• Boeing EA-18G Growler to advance to full rate production

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 440
  The Boeing EA-18G Growler was approved to advance into Full Rate Production (FRP) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on Nov. 23. The St. Louis-based EA-18G program now can proceed from Low Rate Initial Production to FRP quantities of approximately 20 aircraft per year.
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• Cobham Enables Airbus A330 Air-to-Air Refuelling Flight Demonstrations — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  Cobham Enables Airbus A330 Air-to-Air Refuelling Flight Demonstrations WIMBORNE, United Kingdom – Cobham air-to-air refuelling pods have successfully demonstrated the ability to transfer fuel from the Airbus Military A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) to Spanish Air Force F-18s with a series of ...
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• Air Force Buys Five Global Hawks

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  Despite the debate in Congress over how many Global Hawks could be ordered with the 2010 money the Air Force went ahead and used their Continuing Resolution Authority (CRA) money to buy five. The House had written into their version of the Defense Appropriations bill that only three could be purchased due to ...
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• Australia’s Troubled E-737 “Wedgetail” AWACS Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  E-737 Wedgetail over New South Wales (click to view full) The island continent of Australia faces a number of unique security challenges that stem from its geography. The continent may be separated from its neighbors by large expanses of ocean, but it also resides within a potential arc of instability, and has ...
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