Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has assigned the role of vice president of finance to Vivek Upadhyaya, former chief financial officer, treasurer and chief information officer at Leonardo‘s electronics subsidiary in the U.S. He will oversee Mercury’s corporate finance team and its forecasting, internal management reporting and analysis fun...
NASA and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have agreed to jointly develop and test systems that can support the use of unmanned aircraft systems in air cargo operations and the rest of the country’s airspace. The collaboration falls under the Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles subproject under NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXpl...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has begun development work on an active electronically scanned array radar for the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday the AN/APG-85 AESA system is a multifunction sensor that will be compatible with all F-35 variants designed to provide warfighters situational aw...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is set to manufacture a rocket motor at full capacity to power the U.S. Army’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System and fulfill capacity requirements under a production contract from GMLRS prime contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Lockheed’s final assembly facility in Camden, Arkansas, takes in missile ro...
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a trusted US government and multinational aerospace, cybersecurity, and technology company. The company has received multiple awards and recognition for its excellent service to the federal government. Read on to learn more about the top Northrop Grumman government contracts. 1. Northrop to develop prototypes for the ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has elevated Scott Vander Hamm to the positions of vice president and corporate lead executive for the company’s U.S. Strategic Command and Air Force Global Strike Command accounts, according to a LinkedIn post. The retired Air Force major general joined Northrop in August 2019 as corporate director of AF aviation ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Air Force have introduced the B-21 Raider long-range strike bomber plane as part of the country’s nuclear triad meant to deter potential adversaries. B-21 is a sixth-generation aircraft that is backed by a digital ecosystem and comes with stealth capabilities and open systems architecture to facilitate...
Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined the board of directors of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). The 32-year Big Blue veteran has steered the technology company through market expansion initiatives across the areas of cloud and quantum computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain, Northrop said Wednesday. Krishna has serv...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, met with members of the Defense Business Board and informed them about the initiatives to strengthen the defense industrial base’s resiliency, according to a DOD meeting readout released Thursday. During DBB’s first quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2023, the two-time Wash100...
