Northrop Grumman has completed the first full-scale static test fire of a stage-one solid rocket motor for the U.S. Air Force’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system. The company said Monday the LGM-35A Sentinel stage-one solid rocket motor was fired at its test facility in Promontory, Utah, to verify the technology’s design approach and evaluate its […] More

Northrop Grumman has started integration and testing activities for its maiden Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor. The ultra-wideband sensor, called EMRIS, is envisioned to perform simultaneous radar, electronic warfare and communication functions in support of warfighter operations, the aerospace and defense company said Thursday.  The digital active electronically scanned array of EMRIS builds on a […] More

Northrop Grumman will manufacture a laser-based man-portable targeting system to enable U.S. Marine Corps personnel operating in GPS-denied environments to identify and locate extended-range targets. The company said Tuesday it received an initial production and operations contract for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, a single handheld device intended to help Marines conduct laser guidance […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Roshan Roeder, a corporate vice president at Northrop Grumman and president of its defense systems sector, as the latest industry executive to be inducted into the 2023 Wash100 list of public and private sector leaders with influence in the government contracting arena. Roeder assumed her current role in October […] More

Northrop Grumman has performed wind tunnel testing to demonstrate the design maturity of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile system. Scaled models of the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM underwent seven comprehensive test campaigns to measure how it would respond to conditions simulating missile launch procedures and various flight maneuvers, Northrop said Thursday. Sarah Willoughby, […] More

Northrop Grumman has partnered with the U.S. Navy and BAE Systems to test its airborne gateway technology aboard an unmanned aerial system to provide interoperability among disconnected maritime assets. During the flight test, the gateway was installed into the MQ-4C Triton flying test bed to distribute fifth-generation sensor data to ground-based simulators representing various platforms […] More

The U.S. Army has declared initial operational capability status for Northrop Grumman’s Common Infrared Countermeasures technology that is designed to provide protection from shoulder-fired and vehicle-launched anti-aircraft missile threats. CIRCM is now available for installation on more than 1,500 Army aircraft and has met the IOC requirements for four helicopter variants: the UH-60M, HH-60M, CH-47F and AH-64E, the […] More

Northrop Grumman has selected CAES to provide the aerospace and defense company with antennas designed to protect GPS-guided precision weapons from jamming and interference threats. CAES said Monday it secured a contract worth over $24 million to deliver 80,000 M-Code GPS antennas to Northrop in support of the Precision Guidance Kit production over a three-year […] More

An industry collaboration was able to showcase transmission of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data and video using tactical data links of Northrop Grumman, private 5G network of AT&T and open radio access network of Fujitsu. Northrop said Wednesday the team conducted the 5G-enabled, open architecture ISR capability demonstration to support the establishment of digital battle […] More

Northrop Grumman will help the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate update its intelligence information platforms under a potential $406 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will support the service’s Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements program through the contract. InSITE seeks to help AFRL/RI modernize its capabilities to collect, share and analyze intelligence […] More

Northrop Grumman and the Naval Research Laboratory have conducted an at-sea demonstration of key components of an electronic attack prototype system designed to equip smaller naval vessels with anti-ship missile defense capabilities. The Ultra-Lite Electronic Attack system is a size, weight and power-optimized platform designed to integrate Northrop’s transceiver technology into NRL’s expeditionary EA antenna, […] More

Commercial space company Momentus named Chris Kinman, who has over 30 years of government and industry experience, as chief commercial officer, effective from Jan. 9.  Kinman previously served as senior business development executive for Northrop Grumman‘s space sector business, where he led the business development team in the capture of space-related opportunities with the intelligence and […] More