Contract: Northrop Grumman, $79.2M

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $79,239,035 contract for the procurement of 487 NexGen MWS sensors and 99 NexGen MWS processors, including associated technical data, for the H-53 and H-46 helicopters. Under two percent of the work will be done in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 05/05/10)