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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in Bethpage, NY, received a $14 million firm-fixed-priced delivery order for the manufacture of engineering change proposal kits for the E-2C Group O Hawkeye for the Government of Japan under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program (ECP-422-R1, Kit 9, 15-ton Enhanced Vapor Cycle and ECP-411-R1 200 Export Configuration Upgrade). The contract announcement, and the recent ESSM modification contract, come in the context of debate In Japan about its future military role, a state visit by Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and joint concern from Japan and the USA about the EU’s plan to lift restrictions on military sales to China. Other foreign customers of the E-2 airborne early warning and control aircraft include Egypt, France, Israel, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand; India has reportedly expressed interest.
Work on this order will be performed in Bethpage, NY and is expected to be completed in December 2007. The Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River, MD issued the order against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N00019-04-G-0003).