C4ISR: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA
Northrop Grumman develops C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) systems to augment the US military's visualization of remote conflict zones. These systems bring together information from the air, the surface of the earth, and below ground with data from sensors, imaging technologies, radar, sonar, lidar, and eyewitness reports.
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