Scott Stapp, former vice president of resiliency and rapid prototyping within Northrop Grumman's space systems sector, has been promoted to chief technology officer. Stapp will report to Kathy Warden, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop and five-time Wash100 Award recipient.

Northrop Grumman has completed the initial preliminary design review (PDR) for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the company reported on Wednesday. The module will support NASA’s Lunar Gateway by working as a crew habitat and docking hub for vehicles. “Maturing HALO through its preliminary design marks a major milestone in the module’s production,” said Steve Krein, vice president of civil and commercial satellites at Northrop Grumman.

Northrop Grumman powered the deployment of the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-101 mission aboard an Atlas V rocket with three of its Graphite Epoxy Motors 63 strap-on boosters.

Sally Richardson, program director for the Human Landing System at Northrop Grumman, said the company completed on Oct. 8 a system readiness review of the HLS' transfer element and is preparing for two more assessments in December and January, NASASpaceflight reported Friday. 

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.

Northrop Gruman has secured a $57.1M contract to commence full-rate production of 19 GQM-163A Coyote supersonic sea skimming targets for the U.S. Navy and the government of Japan.

Kathy Warden, the chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company is leveraging digital manufacturing technologies for U.S. Air Force missile programs, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Tom Afferton, vice president of Defense and Intelligence Business Unit with Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding information technology (IT) modernization, cybersecurity and evolving threats. He also addressed how the company has helped customers adapt to remote working and how it’s shifted the technology and cultural landscape. …

Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she “is very confident” that nuclear modernization programs would still get government backing in the event that a new president gets elected, Inside Defense reported Thursday.

Northrop Grumman has updated its ALQ-131C electronic countermeasures pod to include an exportable framework and a digital electronic warfare architecture to support operations across the electromagnetic spectrum.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 19, 2020 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) was selected as the enterprise module integrator for the Defense Intelligence Agency's Machine-Assisted Rapid-Repository System as part of a potential $690M task order, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 1.

Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide additional abort system components for the Orion capsule that will be used for NASA’s subsequent Artemis missions to deep space.

A Northrop Grumman cargo spacecraft launched Friday evening from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to bring almost 8K pounds of cargo for a 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The U.S. Air Force has received Northrop Grumman-built sensor and camera technologies in a push to modernize the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for the service branch and the geographic combatant commands.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman have commenced the fourth experiment with groups of autonomous vehicles designed to support future small infantry operations in an urban environment.