The US Air Force has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to integrate its common link integration processing (CLIP) system on B-1B and B-52 aircraft.

Under the $14m contract, Northrop will deliver the CLIP system that will provide aircrews with enhanced battlefield awareness, communications capabilities and weapons management.

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Northrop will also support software integration, ground and flight tests as well as air force and joint interoperability certifications as part of the 17-month contract extension.

All 66 aircraft in the B-1 bomber fleet and 94 aircraft in the B-52 fleet will be integrated with CLIP under the programme.

CLIP is a software package that allows existing platforms without a tactical data link, as well as platforms with different data links, to communicate with each other.

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The system enables weapon systems to interface with the global information grid, easing crew workload by providing data to automatically retask the weapons system.

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