Northrop Grumman has received a $225-million contract modification to design and deliver advanced training systems and courseware for the U.S. Navy’s E-130J aircraft under the service’s Take Charge and Move Out recapitalization program. The award, issued under an existing cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, supports the full development of training materials and simulation tools for the E-130J platform, a key element of airborne early warning and command-and-control operations.
Most of the work will take place in Florida and Oklahoma and is scheduled to run through March 2027. Funding for the effort comes from fiscal year 2026 research, development, test, and evaluation allocations. The training package is expected to include classroom instruction modules, live-fire rehearsal content, and interactive simulation environments designed to replicate real mission scenarios and prepare crews for complex intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
Alongside this effort, the United States Department of Defense has advanced several initiatives to modernize military training technologies. In January 2024, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Mission Technologies division received a $195-million contract from the United States Air Force to develop the Joint Training Synthetic Environment, a live-virtual-constructive system designed to integrate exercises across multiple services and combatant commands.
Later, in August 2024, Science Applications International Corporation secured a $120-million contract to support advanced tactical training for the United States Navy Pacific Fleet, including fleet synthetic training and wargaming exercises to enhance operational readiness. The United States Army also expanded its simulation capabilities in 2025 by upgrading the Virtual Battlespace 4 system under the Games for Training program, while Huntington Ingalls Industries won a further $182-million contract in March 2025 to sustain F-16 mission training devices used across the Air National Guard, naval reserve units, and active-duty forces.
