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Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector (ES3) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have agreed terms for the early exercise of a contract option to begin production of a new weather radar detection capability in Northrop Grumman's ASR-9 airport surveillance radar.

The BBC is due in court in the UK today (30 March) to appeal against a High Court ruling that the trial of two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing should not televised.

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