The Air Force recently awarded Northrop Grumman additional funds to facilitate an adjusted launch schedule for the last two remaining satellites in the service's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. The service issued the contract modification on Nov. 16, providing an extra $36 million to the company to prepare the sensors on the last remaining satellites, DMSP-19 and DMSP-20. According to Gilbert Chan, Northrop's lead on DMSP, the company's original contract specified a 2010 time frame for both satellites -- a schedule...
