Ramona Adams
Northrop Grumman has awarded at least $1 billion in subcontracts to small businesses as the prime awardee of the Missile Defense Agency‘s Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract.
Forty-nine percent of all subcontracts under JRDC have gone to various classes of small business, the company said Tuesday.
Northrop held two events to mark the achievement in Huntsville, Alabama and Colorado Springs, Colorado — the headquarters of small businesses with what the company said were the “most significant” JRDC contributions.
Northrop has been JRDC’s prime contractor since 2005 and leads all Ballistic Missile Defense System support activities such as modeling and simulation, ground and flight tests, war games, military exercises, operations and enterprise network services.
In fiscal year 2015, small business suppliers made up 37 percent of more than 9,500 vendors that Northrop selected for approximately $7 billion in subcontracts, the company noted.
Northrop says it has exceeded JRDC’s yearly 23-percent small business subcontract goal for at least 10 years.
