Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) today officially opened its new U.K. technical support centre to provide service, repair and maintenance for the company’s inertial navigation systems (INS) used in Royal Navy ships and submarines.
The new naval gyrocompass support centre, located at Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine facility in New Malden, U.K., contains a full repair and calibration workshop to support NATO ship INS (SINS) installed on Royal Navy surface warships and attack submarines. Sperry Marine is under contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide ongoing in-service support for these systems.
The event was attended by Northrop Grumman executives, as well as MoD officials and local political leaders. They received a tour of the facility as well as briefings on and demonstrations of its capabilities.
“This new facility will significantly enhance Northrop Grumman’s U.K.-based technical capabilities and marks a major milestone in our continuing programme of improving the support we provide to our MoD customers,” said Sir Nigel Essenhigh, chairman of Northrop Grumman U.K. “The gyro support centre in New Malden will enable us to provide faster turnaround times and more responsive service support for these important mission-critical shipboard components.”