Contractor Sees No More Overruns In NPOESS 

Northrop Grumman has a handle on cost overruns that have plagued the National Polar-orbiting Observational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), and the program can be completed for $11.5 billion, an official said. "We can do this system within that total cost," David Ryan, sector vice president and...

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