Northrop Grumman [NOC] has been awarded $7.3 million for post-production life cycle support to the Marine Corps’ AN/TYQ-23(V)4 Tactical Air Operations Module (TAOM) and related subsystems, the company said Thursday.
The contract will support AN/TYQ-23 through September 2014. Activities will include sustaining and upgrading the circuit card assemblies, software and hardware of the command and control systems that support the USMC Tactical Air Operations Center. The company will also make software improvements to radar and data communications.
AN/TYQ-23 is a transportable facility that provides surveillance, identification, threat evaluation, weapons coordination, airspace management and communications capabilities to inform tactical air operations.