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The U.S. Navy has performed the second live-fire test of a Northrop Grumman-developed air-to-surface missile system designed to detect, locate and target land-based air defense radar systems at extended ranges. Northrop said Monday the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range was launched from F/A-18 Super Hornet jet at the Point Mugu Sea Range in […] More
Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of Defense Systems for Northrop Grumman as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the impact of the company’s recent $1.4 billion contract award to produce the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). In addition, […] More
Northrop Grumman has delivered an MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system in multi-intelligence configuration to a U.S. Navy air base in Maryland. The Integrated Functional Capability-4 variant, also known as B8, arrived Feb. 1 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River and is the first production unit of the MQ-4C platform with sensor technology designed for the […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to prototype an artificial intelligence technology that would integrate with augmented reality platform to assist helicopter pilots in performing their tasks. The company will work with the University of Central Florida to develop the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant under DARPA’s Perceptually-enabled Task […] More
Executive Mosaic has named Kathy Warden, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the implementation of the company’s capital allocation strategy and driving growth for its space systems segment. Visit GovCon Wire to read her full profile. The award marks the seventh […] More
Candace Givens, a more than 20-year defense industry leader and spaceflight engineering executive, has joined Virgin Orbit as vice president of engineering. She will work closely with Kevin Sagis, chief engineer and senior vice president of technology at Virgin Orbit, as the company continues to scale up its space launch operations to meet the increasing demand […] More
Herndon, Virginia-based satellite communications provider iDirect Government has named technology and defense industry veterans David Aronoff, Jill Kale and Mitch Herbets to the board of directors. “We welcome all three board members and look forward to their counsel as we continue to execute on our strategic plan and drive growth,” John Ratigan, president of iDirectGov, […] More
The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More
Siemens has secured a multiyear deal to provide Lockheed Martin a suite of software products and services to support the latter’s digital engineering strategy. Lockheed’s aeronautics segment will implement the Xcelerator platform in efforts to accelerate program life cycles and drive innovation pursuits surrounding digital transformation, Siemens said Tuesday. Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of […] More
Sandy Smallwood, a former Peraton and Northrop Grumman executive, has joined Assured Consulting Solutions as director of the Reston, Virginia-headquartered small business’ portfolio of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency programs. The new director, who is a veteran in the defense and intelligence communities, will oversee ACS systems and digital engineering and managed services work for the NGA, […] More
United Launch Alliance sent to space two U.S. Space Force situational awareness satellites using its Atlas V rocket on Friday. The USSF-8 mission lifted GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to a near-geosynchronous orbit under the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, ULA said the same day as the launch. The two […] More
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies demonstrated their systems that can enable a single user to control a swarm of more than 100 drones in an urban setting as part of an experiment held in November at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, C4ISRNET reported Friday. The companies participated in the experiment under two contracts the Defense Advanced […] More
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