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Saturday, March 01, 2008

Northrop's $35 Billion Tanker Win Is `Game-Changer,' Sugar Says

Northrop Grumman Corp., the world's largest warship builder, stormed back to reclaim its aircraft- manufacturing roots with a surprise win in a $35 billion U.S. Air Force contest over heavily favored Boeing Co.

The Air Force contract to build as many as 179 aerial refueling tankers may be as important to Northrop historically as the contract for the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber was in the 1980s, Chief Executive Officer Ronald Sugar said in an interview yesterday. The new tanker aircraft will be named the KC-45A.

"This is a big deal and in some ways it could be considered a game-changer," Sugar said. "This is a major systems-integration job."

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