About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace and defense technology company. Northrop Grumman has nearly 100,000 employees and over 30 million square feet of manufacturing space.[9]
The NPM integrates with the system's Inertial Sensor Module, which Northrop Grumman designs and produces.[9]
Northrop Grumman has signed two multi-year framework agreements totaling over $3 billion. Under a $2 billion framework agreement, Northrop Grumman will supply components including solid rocket motors and ignition safety devices. A $1 billion framework agreement covers increased monthly deliveries of THAAD components over seven years. Northrop Grumman is doubling the capacity to deliver solid rocket motors at its Utah facilities. Northrop Grumman is nearly tripling the capacity at the Allegany Ballistics Lab in West Virginia. Northrop Grumman is increasing solid rocket motor capacity by 25% at its Elkton, Maryland facility. Northrop Grumman has supplied THAAD with expertise for interceptor shell cores, aft bulkheads and heat shield assemblies since 2002. Northrop Grumman's San Diego plant has a 50-year legacy of production of structural components across air, land and space domains. Since 2019, Northrop Grumman has invested over $2 billion in munitions related technologies and facilities, including over $1 billion for solid rocket motor production. Northrop Grumman's investment supports the U.S. Army's growth in annual PAC-3 MSE missile production for U.S. forces and allied partners.
The Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC) designs, manufactures, assembles, tests and packages microelectronics for defense and commercial systems in the United States. The NGMC is comprised of three U.S. government-accredited manufacturing facilities. The facilities are two semiconductor foundries in California and Maryland and an advanced packaging facility in Florida. Northrop Grumman's Microelectronics Center is open to external aerospace and defense companies to access its three U.S. government-accredited semiconductor manufacturing facilities. FORTITUDE™ is a chip for commercial and defense RF applications that uses unique circuitry to accelerate data flow. FORTITUDE™ processes portions of the electromagnetic spectrum on a single gallium nitride chip. Space Park is a foundry in Redondo Beach, CA, known for microwave and millimeter wave technology. Baltimore foundry and facility services consist of silicon, compound semiconductors and super conducting technologies, and advanced packaging. Northrop Grumman's San Diego team delivers secure processing technologies and electronic warfare systems. Northrop Grumman has a $7 million contract to create diamond-cooled chips.[11][14]
Northrop Grumman applies small- and medium-class satellite technologies to national security systems used for space missions and related technology demonstration programs. Mission Extension Vehicles (MEVs) provide on-orbit life-extension services to satellite operator Intelsat. MEVs extend the life of legacy satellites. Metrology Services is an ISO 17025 accredited provider of metrology and calibration services, with DC to RF/Microwave measurement capabilities to 110 GHz. Engineering services include measurement methodology, uncertainty analysis, measurement systems and software development, calibration systems review, and evaluation of capabilities, including customized training.[12][13][14]
The UH 60V Black Hawk Integrated Mission Equipment Package modernizes legacy UH 60L helicopters with a digital, open-architecture cockpit. OpenLift™ is Northrop Grumman's modular open systems architecture (MOSA) for acquiring and delivering new capabilities to the warfighter. Operators of open architecture systems are free to work with multiple developers to upgrade capabilities. Northrop Grumman's approach to the UH-60V integrated mission equipment package draws on experience with similar upgrades for the U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters. The experience includes the U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and the Royal Jordanian Air Force AH-1 program.[9][15]
Northrop Grumman and Thales Belgium have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at advancing defense capabilities for the European region and NATO customers.[3][4][6][8][9][11]
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