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The prime has been selected to deliver engineering services to enhance a digital cockpit design for the US Department of Defense.
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a US$156.7 million (AU$231.7 million) contract to support the KBR-led Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s (DoD IAC) program.
The five-year contract, awarded by the US Air Force’s 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, involves the delivery of engineering services.
This aims to develop new knowledge for the enhancement of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) repository and the research and development (R&D) and science and technology (S&T) community.
Specifically, Northrop Grumman has been tapped to enhance the UH-60V — a comprehensive digital cockpit redesign, set to replace the UH-60L’s legacy analogue instrumentation with a fully open and integrated avionics suite.
The architecture is reportedly applicable to both current fleet and future vertical lift aircraft, and is extensible to Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook aircraft.
“We are exploring a wide range of capabilities that will keep the UH-60V relevant in the multi-domain operations environment of the future,” Lindsay McEwen, vice president, navigation, targeting and survivability, Northrop Grumman, said.
“Our modular, open architecture approach makes it possible to rapidly integrate enhanced capabilities.”
The DoD IAC, sponsored by the DTIC, has been set up to provide technical data management and research support for DoD and federal government users.
The IAC program aims to drive innovation and technological developments by enhancing collaboration through integrated scientific and technical information development and dissemination for the DoD and broader S&T community.
[Related: Northrop Grumman Australia formalises push for AIR 6500]
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