Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has made a series of leadership changes after Chief Operating Officer Gloria Flach and Sid Ashworth, corporate vice president for government relations, announced plans to retire by the end of December. Kathy Warden, corporate VP and president of Northrop™s mission systems business, will transition to new roles as pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will provide continued in-service support for a remotely controlled vehicle that the U.K. ministry of defense’s special projects search and countermeasures team uses for explosive ordnance disposal operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday it rec...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has agreed to purchase Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) for approximately $9.2 billion in a push to accelerate innovation efforts and expand technology offerings. Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop said Monday it will pay $7.8 billion in cash and assume $1.4 billion in net debt from Orbital ATK under the transact...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is close to finalizing an agreement to buy Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) as Northrop aims to broaden its portfolio of missiles and space platforms, Defense News reported Monday. Defense News cited a Wall Street Journal report that says both companies could unveil the transaction as early as Monday and estimates the de...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential five-year, $265 million contract to continue to maintain an airborne gateway platform the U.S. Air Force uses to translate and distribute voice communications and battlespace data from multiple sources. The company said Tuesday it will provide maintenance and logistics services for the B...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 11, 2017 ” A subsidiary of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has completed the preliminary design review of the AstroMesh reflectors for two Airbus-built communications satellites that will be part of the Inmarsat-6 constellation, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Northrop said Wednesday Astro Aerospace conducted the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 9, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has completed the integration of the sunshield flight layers that will work to protect the components of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the sunshield is made of Kapton and consists of five layers th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 31, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has moved forward to the engineering, manufacturing and development phase of its work to update the F-16 aircraft’s active electronically scanned array radar for the Air National Guard, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The National Interest reported Wednesday that Nort...
A team composed of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), ViaSat (Nasdaq: VSAT) and Optus has received a potential $170 million contract to build a satellite ground station and a wideband satellite communications network management system for Australia’s defense force. The team will install a satellite groun...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will supply MK 48 torpedo nose shell assemblies and transducer arrays to the U.S. Navy under a potential $50.1 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will produce up to 180 units plus spare parts and provide engineering support servic...
