Northrop Grumman has appointed Douglas Shaffer as vice president of the marine systems, bringing over two decades of engineering and management expertise to the post. Shaffer announced his new role in a LinkedIn post. He will lead efforts to develop and deliver advanced submarine and aircraft carrier propulsion, power generation and missile launching systems to […] More

Henry Cyr announced on LinkedIn Monday his appointment as vice president of strategic command, control and communications systems at Northrop Grumman, transitioning from his role as director of multi-domain command and control capture programs. In his new position, Cyr leads a critical initiative to develop survivable and secure communications platforms for national defense. Cyr has been with […] More

Northrop Grumman has received clearance from the Missile Defense Agency to produce five units of the Modified Ballistic Re-Entry Vehicle-11, an advanced target vehicle developed to test the MDA’s Next Generation Interceptor. The aerospace and defense company said Thursday that the MBRV-11 will be integrated with intermediate range and intercontinental ballistic missile targets to simulate the […] More

Northrop Grumman deployed low-cost target vehicles in tests on the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s capabilities. Nine intercept vehicles, called “Zombie” targets for their repurposed demilitarized rocket motors, were launched during the USASMDC LTZ-3 test mission, the company said. The targets, tagged as “Black Dagger,” were developed in collaboration with Teledyne Brown Engineering […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Northrop Grumman to modernize the F/A-18 aircraft’s LITENING targeting pods. Under the collaboration, the advanced tactical data links will be deployed to enable faster communications for the combat plane, Northrop said Thursday. The technology employs the bandwidth-efficient common data link waveform to support rapid and secure data transmission. Enabling […] More

Han Park, an industry veteran with over 20 years of systems, hardware and software experience, has been appointed vice president of artificial intelligence integration at Northrop Grumman, according to the executive’s LinkedIn post shared Friday. Han Park’s Northrop Grumman Career Park’s latest engagement with Northrop marks his second with the company. He was previously part of the […] More

Northrop Grumman has completed two tests on the new artificial intelligence capabilities of its Forward Area Air Defense, or FAAD, an advanced battle manager system designed for counter-drone operations. The tests on the counter-unmanned aerial system’s AI upgrade demonstrated streamlined decision-making to foil UAS swarm attacks through a single button command from a mobile tablet, […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to continue the development of a defensive countermeasure against hypersonic weapons under the Glide Phase Interceptor program. The company said Thursday that its GPI will fire interceptor missiles from U.S. Navy’s destroyers equipped with Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems and from Aegis Ashore, the land-based variant of […] More

Northrop Grumman has completed a demonstration of its hybrid satellite communication terminal for an Air Force Research Laboratory program that aims to connect air and ground military platforms to commercial satcom. During the test, the hybrid satcom terminal delivered connectivity with two commercial networks: the Viasat Ka band service through the ViaSat-3 F1 satellite in […] More

A team comprising Northrop Grumman and personnel from the U.S. Air Force has completed a series of tests for the B-21 Raider strategic bomber. Northrop said Wednesday that test pilots reported the first test vehicle is performing well in flight, closely matching training simulators. The company also confirmed B-21’s structural integrity through static testing and begun fatigue […] More

Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman have completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor. The test, which demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications, was carried out at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, RTX said Thursday. In addition to providing data supporting digital modeling and simulations, the test […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the capability of its digital engineering ecosystem to reduce the time and costs associated with designing, building and testing aircraft on Scaled Composites’ Model 437 Vanguard. On Thursday, Northrop said the multi-mission aircraft flew for the first time using wings developed through the Digital Pathfinder project. The Digital Pathfinder is a […] More