TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 5, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will supply Battlefield Airborne Communications Node units to update the U.S. Air Force‘s EQ-4B Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft under a $39.9 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will insta...
Jennifer O’Connor, former general counsel at the Defense Department, has joined Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) as vice president, associate general counsel and sector counsel for the company’s mission systems sector. Northrop said Friday she will succeed the retiring James Stephenson and report to Sheila Cheston, corporate v...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $99.5 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to support the integration of large aircraft infrared countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Northrop will provide hardware such as weapon replaceable assemblies, support equipment, signal processors, 302 advanced...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 25, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has opened a new autonomous systems research facility at the Grand Sky unmanned aircraft systems business and aviation park in North Dakota in a move to increase support for the Grand Forks Air Force Base, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the bu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 30, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have performed initial integration of their respective technologies for a soft-kill demonstrator of the U.S. Army‘s Modular Active Protection System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lockheed said Tuesday its Open Architecture P...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will pursue task orders under a potential $3.04 billion contract to provide space and missile defense technology design, development, demonstration and integration services to the U.S. Army, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the indefinite-delive...
Janis Pamiljans, general manager of strategic systems at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) aerospace systems business, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as corporate vice president and president of the firm™s aerospace systems business. Pamiljans will succeed the retiring Thomas Vice on April 1 and report to Wes Bush, Northr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 15, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Redstone Defense Systems and the U.S. Army have conducted a test flight of an updated UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter fitted with Northrop’s Integrated Avionics Suite, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Northrop said Monday the helicopter’s digitized cockpit with di...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and BAE Systems have ended a joint pursuit of the U.S. Air Force™s T-X trainer aircraft program, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. œThe companies have decided not to submit a proposal for the T-X Trainer program, as it would not be in the best interest of the companies and their shareholders, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 23, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will fund the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ annual unmanned aircraft system design challenge for the third consecutive year in an effort to nurture innovative engineering and technical thinking among students, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Teams of e...
