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  • in Executive Spotlight

    Executive Profile: Kristie Cunningham, BAE Systems Inc. Communications SVP

    Kristie Cunningham serves as senior vice president of communications at BAE Systems Inc., where she is responsible for the firm’s external and internal communications activities and leads work on communications strategies and messages across all media and distribution channels. As a member BAE’s senior leadership team and global communications team, she directs media relations, employee engagement, marketing communications and community investment […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Peggy Nelson: Northrop Employees Build ‘FabLab’ to Advance Aerospace Ideas

    Northrop Grumman has opened a new aerospace technology laboratory at its Space Park campus in Redondo Beach, Calif. that more than 70 company employees developed the idea of and helped create. The Fabrication Laboratory, dubbed “FabLab,” will house both engineers and non-engineers in an environment that is intended as a collaborative environment to share ideas on and […] More

  • in C4ISR News, News

    Visiongain Report: Top UAV Makers Eye Specialties to Diffuse Competition

    Business information provider Visiongain has unveiled its list of top 20 unmanned aerial vehicles and systems manufacturers in the world. The report predicts the specialties companies will choose in the field and how new players will try to stake a claim on a market that could undergo key structural changes amid an emergent commercial UAVs segment, Visiongain said Monday. “Although increasingly competitive, the […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Airbus Picks Northrop to Supply Helicopter Navigation Data Tech

    Airbus has chosen a Northrop Grumman subsidiary to manufacture attitude and heading reference systems for integration into multiple types of Airbus helicopters. Northrop Grumman LITEF is scheduled to start production of its LCR-350 AHRS for various Airbus-built helicopters in 2016, Northrop said Tuesday. Germany-based LITEF designed the technology to help pilots view aircraft heading and […] More

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    Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot VII STEM Program Attracts 2K+ Entrants

    More than 2,150 teams of middle school and high school students from 50 states, Canada and U.S. military schools have registered to participate in a cyberdefense contest run by the Air Force Association. Registrations for AFA’s CyberPatriot VII challenge are up approximately 40 percent from the 1,566 entrants recorded last year, AFA said Monday. The […] More

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    Northrop to Mentor College Teams at Int’l USV Development Contest

    Northrop Grumman is helping to sponsor a contest in Singapore for university students around the world to build and demonstrate unmanned surface vessels. Fifteen college teams from the U.S., Singapore, Korea, Japan and Australia will take part in the Maritime RobotX Challenge from Oct. 20 to 26 at Singapore’s Marina Bay complex, Northrop said Monday. […] More

  • in Executive Spotlight

    Executive Profile: Jeff Yu, Northrop ISR Tech and Engineering Director

    Jeff Yu serves as director of technology and engineering for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance division within the information systems sector at Northrop Grumman. Yu leads a business organization that offers systems, applications and services for the intelligence, defense, and national security communities and his focus areas include the division’s technology investment portfolio and its research […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Navy Green Lights Northrop to Start Counter IED System Production, Deployment; Jeannie Hilger Comments

    Northrop Grumman will begin to produce and deploy its counter-improvised explosive device system after the company received approval from the U.S. Navy to go forward on the work. The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare jammer system works to thwart IED trigger devices, Northrop Grumman said Thursday. Jeannie Hilger, vice president and general manager of the communications division […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Northrop Taps UC Colorado Springs for Defense Cyber Research Grant

    Northrop Grumman has awarded a $70,000 research grant to the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs to study and develop cybersecurity and resiliency technologies for Defense Department systems. The company said Thursday UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Sciences will perform research over a nine-month period as part of the university’s partnership with Northrop on research and development in the fields […] More

  • in C4ISR News, News

    Mike Mackey: Navy’s 2nd Northrop Triton Drone Undergoes Flight Testing

    The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman flew a second unmanned Triton aircraft for 6.7 hours on Wednesday from the company’s manufacturing center in Palmdale, California. Northrop said Thursday the MQ-4C Triton test was conducted in preparation of the drone’s ferry flight to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, later this month. The UAS will […] More

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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

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    Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched a modernization offering that works to drive fuel efficiency and enable extended life for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, also known as Humvees. The company said Tuesday that it collaborated with Meritor Defense and Pratt & Miller Engineering to develop the offering, which aims to achieve lower sustainment and life-cycle costs. Jeff Wood, director of vehicle modernization at Northrop Grumman Technical […] More