{"id":122343,"date":"2021-05-07T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/northrop-grumman-to-supply-navigation-payloads-for-darpas-blackjack-satellites"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:22:28","slug":"northrop-grumman-to-supply-navigation-payloads-for-darpas-blackjack-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/northrop-grumman-to-supply-navigation-payloads-for-darpas-blackjack-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman to supply navigation payloads for DARPA\u2019s Blackjack satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-to-supply-navigation-payloads-for-darpas-blackjack-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 million contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payloads for the Blackjack program.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 million contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payloads for the Blackjack program.<\/p>\n<p>Blackjack is a DARPA project to demonstrate the military utility of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide communications, missile warning and PNT. Northrop Grumman\u2019s contract was awarded April 28, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.sam.gov\/opp\/741bf59b1e2441958ec9038087ec515b\/view\">sam.gov.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company will supply two payloads that broadcast a new signal that is not dependent on the Global Positioning System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 million contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payloads for the Blackjack program. WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $13.3 million contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) payloads for the Blackjack program. Blackjack is a DARPA project to demonstrate the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}