Michael Papay, chief information security officer and vice president of cyber initiatives at Northrop Grumman, will deliver the opening keynote address at an upcoming two-day cybersecurity event in New York. The 16th Annual New York State Cyber Security Conference and 8th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance will take place June 4 and 5 at the […] More

BAE Systems will install a laser-guided rocket onto a Northrop Grumman-made drone, marking the first time this weapon will be integrated onto an unmanned aerial vehicle. BAE said it will put its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System on the MQ-8B Fire Scout and also conduct system analyses and modeling based on flight simulations. The Fire […] More

The U.S. Navy has indicated its intent to award Northrop Grumman's defense systems business a sole-source contract to commence low-rate initial production of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile““Extended Range variant.

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BWX Technologies has promoted Suzy Sterner to senior vice president of government relations, effective immediately, the company announced on Tuesday. 

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Northrop Grumman has hired an additional 30 employees to support the production of composite aerospace structures at a repurposed facility in West Valley City, Utah. The company said Friday it aims to add 100 jobs in the coming years at the site, which uses automated forming processes to develop and manufacture composite materials for the […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin the process for awarding contracts under the third-generation ENCORE information technology services vehicle in fiscal 2015, Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reported Tuesday. Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, estimates that defense agencies invested approximately $5.8 billion in IT offerings through the second ENCORE iteration. His analysis of the ENCORE […] More

BAE Systems has won a $28 million full-rate production contract from the U.S. Navy to continue building laser-guided rockets for the Marine Corps, BAE said Tuesday. The company said the contract extends production work to 2014 and increases the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System program’s total value to $69 million. BAE builds a mid-body guidance […] More

BAE Systems has converted its 300th F-4 Phantom fighter jet into an unmanned flying drone for the U.S. Air Force under the QF-4 program, the company announced Monday. For 16 years, the company has converted the F-4 into the QF-4 and provided the branch systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, integration and structural […] More

The U.S. Navy recently conducted tests during which it was able to successfully transmit images collected by the Northop Grumman-built Fire Scout unmanned aircraft to Lockheed Martin‘s new HM-60R Sea Hawk helicopter during a joint operation, according to a report in AOL Defense. Carlo Munoz writes that Navy deputy program manager Robert Kimble told reporters […] More

Edward Bush, Northop Grumman Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated an upgrade to the Defense Department‘s standard image processor at the company’s Linthicum, Md. facilities. Northrop’s upgrade provides new virtualization capabilities to the common image processor and lowers costs, the company said in a release. Northrop originally designed and built the CIP, which supports the military’s tactical imagery platforms. The […] More

Northrop Grumman Corporation kicked off its sponsorship of the Tailhook ’11 Reunion this month, part of nationwide year-long celebration of the Centennial of Naval Aviation. Northop“™s support for the event last weekend included sponsorship of the Chief of Naval Operations Annual Aviation Achievement Awards, the Tailhook Education Foundation, Inc., and introduction of the Northrop Grumman […] More

Northrop Grumman recently showcased new technologies during the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Empire Challenge 2011. Demonstrated live, the firm developed a virtual environment that embodied the simulations of other company ISR systems which included the Bat Unmanned Aircraft System, Global Hawk UAS and Joint STARS. The data collected from the simulations were analyzed, exploited and […] More