Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $188.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver six full-rate production gallium nitride systems and related travel assistance to program executive officer land systems.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction agreements to develop and demonstrate electronic warfare system prototypes for the service branch’s F-16 fighter jets.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a contract worth more than $100M to build hardware the Air Force Research Laboratory will use to experiment with a solar power transmission concept.

A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its year-to-date backlog rise 22 percent to $65B in the third quarter of 2019 and posted $8.5B in Q3 sales, reflecting a 5 percent increase from the same period last year.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has utilized multiple heterogeneous unmanned vehicles to demonstrate a swarming approach during a field experiment with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has assembled a microwave instrument for the second Joint Polar Satellite System being built to support weather forecasting and climate monitoring efforts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company began testing JPSS-2's Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder to determine whether the technology can withstand environmental conditions during liftoff and in space, NASA said Thursday.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) aerospace systems sector a potential 10-year, $4.8B contract to extend support services for the military branch's RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems.

Phyllis Schneck, a veteran cybersecurity leader, will assume the role of vice president and chief information security officer of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), starting Oct. 14.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 13-year, $1.39B contract to produce and sustain next-generation navigation systems for the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers. The company will provide follow-on production and sustainment services for the Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System Modernization program, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a six-year, $375.8M delivery order to provide maritime surveillance radars for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems.