TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 17, 2018 — A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) command-and-control system for the U.S. Army‘s air defense assets has completed testing of its long-range network management capability during a five-week soldier checkout event, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 14, 2018 — Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Astro Aerospace business has opened a new manufacturing center in Ventura County, California, that will house the production of satellite structures and other space-based hardware, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the 140,000-square-foot facility in Oxnard is expected to add …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2018 — A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) spacecraft is scheduled to launch Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base to perform a mission for NASA that aims to collect data on Earth’s changing terrain, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The space agency said Wednesday the Ice, Cloud and land …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2018 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has partnered with RapidSOS to integrate their emergency response technologies and deliver a service that will work to enable first responders to locate people seeking help via connected devices such as smartphones, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The RapidSOS Next-Generation 911 Clearinghouse …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 1, 2018 — A Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems-built (NYSE: NOC) Cygnus spacecraft that launched in May to deliver an estimated 7,400 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station and perform secondary space missions reentered Earth’s atmosphere Monday after a 52-day stay at the space observatory, ExecutiveBiz …

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $7.1 billion in sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2018, up 10 percent from the same period last year. The company said Monday it recorded $689 million in Q2 net earnings, showing a 24 percent increase from the prior year period, and saw its backlog …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 30, 2018 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps its first active electronically scanned array radar system equipped with a gallium nitride antenna designed to support real-time threat monitoring, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar with …

A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) joint venture has secured contracts worth $170.5 million combined to supply fire control radar components for the U.S. Army‘s lots 7 and 8 Apache AH-64E helicopters. Longbow will supply FCR mast mounted assemblies, radar electronic units and spares to the Army as well as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2018 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has unveiled an avionics software that it developed as part of a contract awarded in 2014 for an upgraded version of the U.S. Army’s UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter that is set to undergo limited user testing, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The …

Kathy Warden, president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a three-time Wash100 recipient, has been elected to serve as president and CEO of the company in a move slated to take effect Jan. 1. She will succeed Wes Bush, who will continue to serve as chairman …