Northrop to Provide Identification Friend or Foe Systems
Northrop Grumman Guidance and Electronics Company Incorporated, Navigation Systems Division, Woodland Hills, California, is being awarded an $11,494,975 firm-fixed-price production contract for the fabrication, testing and delivery of five interrogator sets AN/UPX-24(V) in an open systems architecture configuration in support of the Combat ID Identification Friend or Foe. Each interrogator set consists of a control monitor C-10065/UPX-24(V) and a processor controller CP-1273/UPX-24(V). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.