Northrop's Slow Repairs Prompt Air Force to Try In-House Work

Bloomberg: The Air Force, impatient with Northrop Grumman Corp.’s delays repairing the U.S.’s top ground surveillance aircraft, is testing whether to move more work in-house, starting with refurbishing a single jet this year.

Northrop is taking an average of 400 days per aircraft to repair or refurbish the inventory of 16 “Jstars” surveillance jets first deployed in 1991, and “we would like to bring that number down” to make more aircraft available, Air Force spokesman Derek Kaufman said in an email.

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