Northrop Grumman said on September 10, 2026, that it remains in talks with Poland about supplying the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, a radar and command aircraft the U.S. Navy already flies from its carriers. According to the company, those discussions cover possible adoption, training and industrial cooperation, but Northrop Grumman stopped short of describing any signed […]

Northrop Grumman announced a series of new industrial agreements with partners in Poland and Estonia on September 10, 2026, unveiled at MSPO, Poland’s largest defense trade show, in Kielce. The announcements span air-defense software, chain guns already mounted on Polish armored vehicles, and exploratory talks over a radar aircraft, tying several existing programs together under […]

A one-way attack drone built by Northrop Grumman flew a test flight in California, guided by a navigation system that never touches GPS. Instead, it reads faint variations in Earth’s own magnetic field, picked up by quantum sensors built by SandboxAQ, a Silicon Valley company spun out of Google. The test took place at Fort […]

Helicopters have carried flares to dodge heat-seeking missiles since the late 1960s. The U.S. Army just committed nearly $4.84 billion to replace that decades-old defense with a laser that jams the missile itself. The Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, awarded Northrop Grumman the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract on September 8 for full-rate production of […]

Northrop Grumman will build a new version of its GPS-guided artillery kit with added anti-jamming technology, the company announced September 9, aimed at keeping artillery accurate even when an enemy is jamming GPS signals. The new kit, called the PGK E5, is the latest version of the M1156 Precision Guidance Kit, a fuze-sized device the […]

The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman an $862.8 million contract to manufacture and deliver M1156 precision guidance kits, according to a Department of War contract announcement. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers manufacturing, inspection, testing, packaging and delivery of the kits and their variants. Northrop Grumman was the only company to submit a bid after […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an $86.1 million task order to maintain the security cameras and sensors that watch over America’s nuclear missile silos. The task order covers program management, maintenance, sustaining engineering and support services for the Remote Visual Assessment program, a ground-based camera and sensor network that monitors Minuteman III […]