CINCINNATI, March 28 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman has won a $2.4 million U.S. Army contract to make Scorpion sensor spare parts.
The contract is a follow-on order from a previous deal the company won from U.S. Central Command -- CENTCOM -- which directs U.S. military operations in Iraq. Under it, Northrop Grumman will make more Scorpion unattended ground sensor -- UGS -- system spares and also organize technical support for them.
The Scorpion system is designed to give soldiers long- and short-range target recognition for situational awareness, border and perimeter security and persistent surveillance.
Northrop Grumman said it had completed the large previous contract with CENTCOM under which it produced and handed over to the Army more than 600 Scorpion systems.
Production for the new equipment will be carried out at the company's Xetron plant in Cincinnati.
"The Scorpion systems have been deployed worldwide and are the most robust unattended target recognition systems manufactured and sold today," said Martin Simoni, site director of Northrop Grumman's Xetron facility. "These systems provide imagery and critical data to the war fighter."
