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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. ‘s NOC business unit, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., recently secured a contract to support the AAQ-24 large aircraft infrared counter-measure (LAIRCM) direct sales public private partnership for repair of 34 national stock numbers. Work related to this deal is scheduled to be over by Dec 14, 2022 and will be executed in Warner Robins, GA.
Valued at $444.6 million, the contract was awarded by the Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins Air Force Base, GA. Foreign military funds (FMS) funds will be used to partly finance the task.
The primary purpose of Northrop Grumman’s LAIRCM program is to protect large aircraft from man-portable missiles. On identifying a missile, LAIRCM activates a high-intensity, laser-based countermeasure system to track and destroy the missile automatically.
