Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Completes Operational Assessment

Program On-Track for Milestone C in Spring 2009
Northrop Grumman Corporation's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye System has completed its Operational Assessment (OA), flying out of the Northrop Grumman East Coast Manufacturing and Flight Test Center in St. Augustine, Fla.

With completion of OA, the flight test program has accumulated more than 600 flight hours, over half involving in-flight radar testing.

"This is another significant milestone for the E-2D program," said Tom Vice, Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems Eastern Region sector vice president.

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