Northrop Awarded $50M for Three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye LRIP-1 Aircraft

Posted on: Dec. 27th, 2007 || Source: DoD | E-mail Article | Print Article

Northrop Grumman Corp., Integrated Systems, Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $50,416,000 not-to-exceed advance acquisition contract for long lead material and support for three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye low rate initial production lot 1 aircraft.

Work will be performed in Syracuse, N.Y. (32.6 percent), various locations within the United States (23.7 percent); Bethpage, N.Y. (15.5 percent); Dallas, Texas (12.4 percent); Menlo Park, Calif. (9.8 percent); and Woodland Hills, Calif. (6 percent), and work is expected to be completed in Aug. 2011.

Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is the contracting activity (N00019-08-C-0027).

FILE HPOTO - The First E-2D Advanced Hawkeye on Display

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