Candace Givens, formerly vice president of the overhead persistent infrared and geospatial systems business unit at Northrop Grumman, announced on LinkedIn Friday her promotion to VP of mission assurance at the company’s aeronautics systems sector. Givens first joined Northrop as an electrical harness designer in 1996. After over two years, she moved to Boeing in the same capacity. […] More

Andrew Jarrett, formerly senior director of the COLOMBIA integrated power systems operating unit at Northrop Grumman, announced on LinkedIn Friday that he has been promoted to vice president of marine systems. Jarrett commenced his tenure with the defense and space manufacturer in January 2020, initially assuming the role of quality and mission excellence director before advancing to senior director of the company’s launcher systems operating unit.

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The U.S. Combat Air Force Distributed Training Center was able to complete its virtual training event with the help of Northrop Grumman's Distributed Mission Operations Network. Northrop Grumman announced Thursday that its DMON Argonne 24 team linked multiple F-22 and F-35 aircraft using a networked virtual aircraft simulator presenting a multi-domain threat scenario.

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The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a contract modification to Northrop Grumman for the Maritime Targeting Cell - Afloat program. The new Maritime Targeting Cell - Expeditionary contract aims to provide a ground-based mobile data delivery system to improve targeting accuracy during combat, the company said Wednesday.

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Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies completed a critical design review of a relay ground station for missile warning and tracking, which will be used by the U.S. Space Systems Command in the Pacific. Northrop said Thursday that it is developing Relay Ground Station-Asia under a contract with the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, which plans to replace its missile warning system by 2025.

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Northrop Grumman has delivered ten booster motor segments that will be built into NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket. The components, which will make up the twin solid rocket boosters of SLS, arrived by rail at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, NASA announced.

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Kerron Duncan, director of Technology for the Chief Information Office with Northrop Grumman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his more than two decades of history with the company, the influence of its company culture and the challenges on the business side of innovation and emerging technology during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. ExecutiveBiz: Congrats on recently transitioning into your new […] More

Executive Mosaic has inducted Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of defense systems business at Northrop Grumman, into the 2022 class of the Wash100 Award in recognition of her leadership in all-domain command and control as well as other defense capabilities and services. This represents the second consecutive year that Petryszyn has been included […] More

Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of Defense Systems for Northrop Grumman as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the impact of the company’s recent $1.4 billion contract award to produce the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). In addition, […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president of Defense Systems with Northrop Grumman, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for her efforts to drive modernization and support new technology offerings for the defense, security and military sectors. This marks Petryszyn first Wash100 Award. Executive Mosaic congratulates Mary Petryszyn and Northrop Grumman on her first Wash100 Award.

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Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of enterprise services at Northrop Grumman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the specific challenges that are facing the aerospace and defense industries and how enterprise services will enable Northrop to overcome them.

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Ginkgo Bioworks has secured a position on a potential 10-year Defense Department omnibus contract worth up to $8.3 billion for chemical and biosecurity projects. The company said Wednesday it will develop and deploy biosecurity tools as the only synthetic biology firm on the Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition and Production/Procurement indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Gingko’s biosecurity tools […] More