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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Navy to buy five E-2D radar aircraft from Northrop Grumman in $781.5 million contract

E-2D Advanced HawkeyeU.S. Navy leaders are buying five models of the Navy's most advanced carrier-based maritime patrol aircraft, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye from the Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems segment in Bethpage, N.Y., under terms of a $781.5 million contract modification announced Tuesday.

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are ordering the advanced radar aircraft surveillance as part of Lot 4 of the E-2D low-rate initial production program.

The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has a completely new radar with mechanical and electronic scanning; integrated all glass cockpit; advanced identification friend or foe system; new mission computer and tactical workstations; electronic support measures enhancements; and modernized communications and data link suite.

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