Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it has received a contract from the United States Marine Corps to provide post-production life cycle support for mobile command, control and communications systems through September 2014. Under the $7.3 million firm fixed price contract, Northrop Grumman will provide life cycle support of the AN/TYQ-23V4 Tactical Air Operations Module (TAOM) and related subsystems. The AN/TYQ-23V4 TAOM is a transportable command, control and communications facility that works in conjunction with the AN/TYQ-87V2 Sector Anti Air Warfare Facility and peripheral equipment for surveillance, identification, threat evaluation, weapons coordination, airspace management and communications capabilities. It serves as the hub of the Marine Corps Tactical Air Operations Center, which is the principal airspace control and management agency for the Marines.

Each AN/TYQ-23V4 contains mission-essential equipment such as computers as well as digital voice communications systems required for command and control functions. Under the new contract, Northrop Grumman will help to sustain and upgrade the circuit card assemblies, software and hardware of the command and control systems that support the Tactical Air Operations Center. Significant software improvements will be made to the Multi-Radar Tracker and Data Communications Unit.