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The company s software-defined Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technology will offer military users an agile new signal from low Earth orbit (LEO) that is not dependent on existing satellite navigation systems, said Nicholas Paraskevopoulos, Northrop Grumman s chief technology officer.
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Theresa Hitchens on May 10, 2021 at 3:59 PM
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WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman has nabbed its first contract under DARPA’s high-profile Blackjack program demonstrating military uses for small, cheap, low-orbiting satellites with an award to develop alternate capabilities when GPS signals are jammed or degraded.
Blackjack is widely seen by the satellite industry as a boot-strap into a lucrative DoD market for smallsats in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). DoD sees LEO constellations as potentially providing a host of services to warfighters in highly-contested conflict zones both as alternatives to today’s uber-expensive handful o