Northrop Grumman said Thursday it had lined up Computer Sciences Corp.’s Australian subsidiary and a Turkish defense electronics firm to provide avionics components and test equipment for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Australia and Turkey are two of the nine partner countries developing the new strike fighter. Northrop already has contracts with several other defense firms in Australia and Turkey.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
