Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman and EADS pulled out late on Monday night, saying the rules of the US tender were designed to favour the smaller air-to-air refuelling tanker proposed by rival Boeing.

诺斯罗普格鲁曼公司和EADS在周一晚间退出了此次竞标。它们表示，美方的招标规则旨在偏袒其竞争对手波音（Boeing）提出的、体型较小的空中加油机方案。

And aerospace giants General Dynamics ( GD), Northrop Grumman ( NOC), Boeing ( BA), and Lockheed Martin ( LMT) are hoping to replace their retiring rank and file with drone-trained grads.

而通用动力公司（General Dynamics）、诺斯罗普•格鲁曼（Northrop Grumman）、波音（Boeing）和洛克希德马丁公司（Lockheed Martin）等航空业巨头都希望招聘接受过无人机驾驶培训的毕业生，替换退休的员工。

Built by Scaled Composites, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, Stratolaunch was designed to carry as many as three rockets tethered to its belly into the skies; the rockets would then drop, ignite and shoot off into space with their payloads.

Stratolaunch是由诺斯洛普·格鲁门公司的子公司Scaled Composites公司（美国一家航空公司）建造的，它被设计用于搭载多达3枚火箭升空，然后栓于机身上的负载火箭会脱落，点火，并被发射到太空。

The company's American partner in the project, Northrop Grumman, pulled out of the process in March claiming the terms favour Boeing.

其美国合作伙伴若斯洛普格拉曼公司在3月份的时候宣布弃标，它认为认为竞标条件偏向于波音公司一方。

Northrop Grumman's final software and hardware delivery is scheduled for the2009 to2010 timeframe.

诺斯普罗。格鲁门公司计划于2009至2010年提供最终的软件和硬件产品。

A row between the US and Europe over protectionism was brewing last night after the US's Northrop Grumman and EADS, the Franco-German aerospace and defence group, pulled out of a$ 50bn military tender amid accusations of unfair competition.

美欧之间一场关于保护主义的争吵昨晚开始露头。此前美国诺斯罗普格鲁曼公司（Northrop Grumman）和法德航空航天与防务集团EADS宣布，由于存在不正当竞争，它们退出了一项500亿美元的军购竞标。

Big defence suppliers such as Northrop Grumman and Boeing have been modelling future warfare for decades, building sophisticated computer models to test scenarios and assess potential solutions before they are delivered to the front line.

大型国防供应商，如诺斯洛普格鲁门公司（northrop grumman）和波音（boeing），数十年来一直在模拟未来战争，在向前线发货之前，建立了先进的计算机模型，以测试场景、评估潜在方案。

The Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk is the modernest UAV of the USAF& the world.

诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司的RQ-4A“全球鹰”是美国空军乃至全世界最先进的无人机。

When Justin Kessler, an applied mathematician at Northrop Grumman Information Systems, showed the results of the project to his managers, they were struck by the low price tag.

当诺斯罗普·格鲁门信息系统公司的应用数学家贾斯廷·凯斯勒（Justin Kessler）将该项目的成果展示给他的经理们时，他们都被如此低廉的价格所震惊。

The plane was slimmed by 2700lb ( 1225kg), but this severely disrupted the supply chain that Lockheed Martin had put together with its main partners ( BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman). That set the project back by nearly two years.

飞机最后减重了2700磅（1.225吨），但却严重打乱了Lockheed Martin和其主要合作伙伴（BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman）衔接起来的供应链，工程因此延后了两年时间。