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Navy Counts on Northrop Grumman for TACAMO Relief

Jan. 30, 2025
The E-130J aircraft is headed to the U.S. Navy for the TACAMO mission.

Northrop Grumman Corp. was selected as the prime contractor to deliver nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) aircraft for the U.S. Navy’s Take Charge And Move Out (TACAMO) mission. The company heads an industry team that includes Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Raytheon (RTX), and Crescent Systems Inc., which will design, develop, test, and maintain the E-130J aircraft. The E-130J (see image above) is being developed to relieve the U.S. Navy’s current E-6B Mercury fleet of the TACAMO mission.​

Well-invested in designing and developing such platforms, Northrop Grumman has been a prime contractor for the U.S. Navy on such systems as the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and MQ-4C Triton, and it offers extensive support for the E-6B Mercury TACAMO fleet. The E-130J requires advanced design, manufacturing, and weapons systems integration for extensive contributions to the TACAMO mission.

Regarding the selection of Northrop Grumman as the prime contractor by the U.S. Navy, Jane Bishop, vice-president and general manager for Northrop Grumman’s global surveillance division, noted, “Our performance on Navy programs like the E-2D and E-6B prove we deliver on what we promise, and we will bring this expertise in helping the Navy deliver the E-130J on time and optimized for this strategically important mission.”

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

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