Northrop Grumman Chairman Wes Bush and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, President Freeman Hrabowski have said students need an increased awareness of the opportunities and skills required for an occupation in the private sector on in the government.

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Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said he would be open to making the company“™s award fees from the James Webb Space Telescope development contract depend on the successful commissioning of NASA“™s space observatory following launch, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “As a mechanism to ensure we are all aligned on mission success, Northrop Grumman has actually […] More

The CEOs of Northrop Grumman and IBM have jointly urged Congress to pass legislation that would reauthorize and update the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Northrop’s Wes Bush, a four-time 2018 Wash100 recipient, and IBM’s Ginni Rometty wrote in a joint opinion piece published Friday on CNBC the proposed bill would fund CTE programs […] More

Wes Bush, chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman, has expressed support for President Donald Trump’s move to protect innovation and sustain competitiveness of U.S. businesses. Bush, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said in a statement published Thursday the company “applauds the President’s focus on protecting U.S. intellectual property and strengthening our national security.” The White House announced it will implement a […] More

Wes Bush, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman, has said he believes the theft of technological innovation threatens U.S. national security and economic competitiveness. He made the statement to express support for President Donald Trump’s memorandum that seeks to investigate aspects of Chinese trade. “This is an important action to address the serious problem […] More

Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company is in the engineering, manufacturing development stage for the Air National Guard“™s program to upgrade the active electronically scanned array radar aboard the Lockheed Martin-built F-16 Fighter Falcon aircraft, the National Interest reported Wednesday. Bush told investors Wednesday the company will update 72 AESA radars on the service […] More

Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company has not reached a decision on whether to submit a proposal for the U.S. Air Force“™s $16 billion T-X trainer aircraft program, Defense News reported Thursday. Bush said at a quarterly earnings call Thursday that Northrop is still evaluating the request for proposals and that it is more interested to […] More

Northrop Grumman has detailed its diversity, ethics, educational and environmental programs in the past year in its 2014 corporate responsibility report. The company said Thursday it achieved a 26.2 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and contributed nearly $16 million to fund global programs that seek to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Wes […] More

Wes Bush, CEO of Northrop Grumman, has said he believes that public-private alliances can help drive national security innovation in the current fiscal environment, Defense News reported Tuesday. “To me, research and development is a partnership issue,” Bush told an audience at a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted panel discussion Tuesday in Washington. He […] More

Northrop Grumman has agreed to invest $750,000 in Virginia Tech“™s scholarship and faculty fellowship programs. The donation will go toward the university’s senior faculty fellowship in advanced intelligence systems and scholarship program in military leadership for the students of Corps of Cadets and College of Engineering, Virginia Tech said Thursday. “We expect that this initiative will contribute […] More

Marianne Brown, formerly chief operating officer of SunGard Financial Systems, has been elected to the board of directors of Northrop Grumman. She joined SunGard, a financial software and information technology services provider, in February 2014 after her role as CEO and president of Omgeo, Northrop said Thursday. Wes Bush, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop, […] More

James Turley, former chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young, has joined Northrop Grumman“™s board of directors. Turley, who joined EY in 1977, held various roles at the company until his retirement in 2013, Northrop said Thursday. He was named EY’s regional managing partner for the Upper Midwest in 1994 and for New York in 1998. […] More