One of today's military contract awards (my bold):
Northrop Grumman Corp., Electronic Sensors and System Section, Linthicum Heights, Md., is being awarded an $8,667,389 cost plus fixed fee contract to develop a lightweight, low-power density Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) technology for the DARPA Integrated Sensor Structure program. The AESA to be developed is dual band (UHF and X-Band) and bonded to the flexible hull material of the airship. The final deliverable is to Feasibility of Flexible Scanned Array. At this time, $2,800,000 has been obligated. Solicitations began in March 2006 and negotiations were complete in April 2006. This work will be complete by April 2008. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y., is the contracting activity. (FA8750-06-C-0049)
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