In a series of recent flight tests off the coast of San Diego the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy victoriously took to the air with the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, what was their first time in flight. The testing took place …

Northrop Grumman’s information technology unit in McLean, Va. will support the development, maintenance and sustainment of the Defense Department’s automated biometric identification system. The more than $15.9 million modification is funded in part by fiscal 2014 research, development, testing and evaluation funds and provides for contractor support for biometric enabling …

The C4ISR group of DRS Technologies Inc. has won a supplier excellence award from Northrop Grumman, which DRS said recognized the sensitive programs support DRS has provided to Northrop’s information systems sector. Winners of the Northrop Grumman supplier excellence award, which also included Harris Corp., were judged based on five …

Northrop Grumman will participate in an aerospace and defense show in Singapore to demonstrate its technologies and exhibit scale models of its aircraft and equipment used for surveillance, fire control and other missions. The global security company said Wednesday the Singapore Airshow 2014 is an opportunity to highlight its capabilities …

A joint venture of Northrop Grumman and Cobham plc has received the first order for a vehicular communication system the team is building for the U.S. Army under a potential $2.4 billion contract awarded in 2009. Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC will begin the AN/VIC-5 program’s production and deployment phase and completed validation and verification …

Tarik Reyes serves as vice president of business development for federal mission programs within the civil systems division of Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector. In this role, Reyes is responsible for all areas of BD strategy, execution, sustainment and growth for Northrop Grumman in the civil Federal and select defense markets. …

A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has won a contract with the Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider to deploy a communication system for pilots and ground personnel in the Curacao region. U.K.-based Park Air Systems will install radios atop  Curacao island’s Seru Gracia, where flights between North and South America pass by, Northrop …

Tina Kuhn serves as vice president of the security and information operations business unit under the cyber intelligence division at Northrop Grumman. Her unit provides intelligence-related systems and services to U.S. Government and international security customers. The organization’s focus is on full-spectrum cyber solutions that protect critical national systems and support the …

Shawn Purvis serves as vice president of the Integrated Intelligence Systems business unit for Northrop Grumman’s intelligence systems division, where she is responsible for all aspects of the unit’s business, including strategy, growth, customer relationships and program execution. Prior to joining Northrop, Purvis held positions of increasing scope and responsibility with SAIC. …

Michele P. Toth is vice president of human resources and administration for Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector. In this role, she leads the HR&A team in all aspects, including human resources strategy, workforce development, talent acquisition, leadership development and training, employee relations, organization change and effectiveness, and compensation and benefits. …

Northrop Grumman and ITT Exelis have teamed up and are working toward the technology demonstration phase of the U.S. Navy‘s next-generation jammer program.  Rich Sorelle, Exelis electronic systems acting president said that the companies will integrate “independently developed subsystems and  components into one truly interoperable system, ensuring U.S. forces will be …

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $39.7 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to design, develop, qualify and test a replacement payload transporter system for the country’s intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system. The contract has a four-year period. “Northrop Grumman has worked in close coordination with the Air Force …

The Boeing Co. has selected Northrop Grumman Corp. to develop an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system for two U.S. Navy aircraft, Northrop announced Thursday. Northrop said it will manufacture a prototype inertial navigation system built with fiber-optic gyro technology for the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft for …

Northrop Grumman plans to offer foreign upgrade customers a new radar based on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s APG-81 active electronically scanned array combined with Scalable Agile Beam Radar receiver, exciter and processors (REP), reported Dave Majumdar for Flighglobal.com on Tuesday. Patrick Antkowiak, vice president of the company’s …

Northrop Grumman‘s LN-200S aids  NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover‘s navigation, according to a photo release published on Northrop’s website.   The LN-200S is a fiber-optic inertial measurement unit (IMU). It assists in positioning Curiosity’s antennae in transmitting photos and data to satellites. It also detects acceleration and angular motion to produce data outputs. …