Northrop Wins Coast Guard Contract

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Northrop Grumman Corp. said Thursday that it won a contract to develop a detection and warning system for the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center.


The system will be an electro-optic system that will warn anchored vessels of encroaching ships and planes. Such a device may have prevented the Oct. 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 sailors.


The system will include lights mounted side-by-side on the deck of a ship that operators can aim at an inbound boat or plane determined to be encroaching on the ship’s “protection zone.”


Shares in Los Angeles-based defense contractor were down 20 cents to $67.87 in early trading Thursday. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

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