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Northrop Grumman continues global innovation
by Alisha Semchuck
staff writer
Innovation paves the road to success at Northrop Grumman — a concept that worked in the past, works in the present and will continue to work in the future.
Employees enjoy the career opportunities af- forded them at the aerospace and leading global security company, from the Society of Women Engineer’s Distinguished New Engineer Award, to veterans now working to protect today’s war fighters through efforts to ensure cybersecurity.
Northrop can take pride in the following current projects:
• Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale Aircraft Inte- gration Center of Excellence provides assembly, integration, testing and long-term maintenance ca- pabilities for some of the world’s most advanced aircraft systems including the B-2 Spirit, the RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton autonomous air- craft and the F-35 Lightening II’s center fuselage, a company spokesperson said.
• The company provides communication pay- loads on all of the Advanced Extremely High Fre- quency satellites, including one built by Lockheed Martin that was launched Jan. 28 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. “AEHF is a criti- cal program for our nation, and Northrop Grum- man is proud to be a member of the industry team partnering with Lockheed Martin and Air Force Space and Missile Systems to deliver this mis- sion-enabling capability,” said Cyrus Dhalla, vice president Communications Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
• Northrop will participate in the Cowen 40th Annual Aerospace/Defense & Industrials Confer-
ence on Feb. 6. Ken Bedingfield, corporate vice president and chief financial officer, and Steve Movius, treasurer and vice president, Investor Relations will present at 10:45 a.m. Eastern time that day. The event will be webcast live at www. northropgrumman.com.
• Northrop received authorization to proceed with low rate initial production of Surface Elec- tronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 systems following a successful Milestone C de- cision for the SEWIP Block 3 AN/SLQ-32 (V) 7 program. Milestone C is a government led review to assess a program’s performance and readiness to enter the production and deployment phase. The successful Milestone C decision recognizes the accomplishments of the Northrop Grumman and Navy team in demonstrating the capability of this groundbreaking Electronic Warfare capability.
• Northrop was awarded a follow-on contract valued up to $86 million from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Launch Sys- tems Enterprise, Small Launch and Targets Divi- sion, for Rocket Systems Launch Program Peace- keeper and Minuteman Solid Rocket Motor Aging Surveillance. The contract is an eight-year effort for ongoing, aging surveillance for all deactivated Minuteman and Peacekeeper motors.
Major highlights at Northrop in the recent past include:
• The company was awarded Top Employer of the Year in 2017 from the Antelope Valley Veter- ans Employment Committee.
• In June 2018, Northrop Grumman Corpora- tion’s production of the center fuselage for the F-35 Lightening II entered full-rate production. This milestone marked the beginning of a 1.5-day production interval, meaning a center fuselage is
produced every day and a half. Northrop Grum- man delivered 121 F-35 center fuselages in 2018. • Northrop Grumman delivered a Global Hawk autonomous aircraft carrying the Battlefield Air- borne Communications Node to the U.S. Air Force fleet. BACN – also developed by Northrop Grumman — is a high-altitude, airborne gateway that translates and distributes voice communica- tions, and other battlespace information from nu-
merous sources.
• In June 2018, the Australian Department of
Defense officially announced its plan to purchase the Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system, further cementing the company’s commitment to a longstanding U.S. ally.
“Moving forward, the company continues to focus on performing on current programs to de- liver (the) commitments to our customers,” the spokesperson said. Northrop core values include ethics, integrity and trust.
In the annual report, released in 2018, the Northrop proxy statement said, “We are very pleased to report another year of outstanding performance for our shareholders, customers and employees.”
Northrop employs a combined work force of 85,000 employees at its locations in all 50 states, including Palmdale, Calif., and 21 countries throughout the world, according to the company website. Northrop Grumman has 27,000 em- ployees within the state of California, a company spokesperson said. “We do not provide employ- ment information at the present time due to sen- sitivities with business competition.”
The company has been acknowledged for excellence in engineering, manufacturing, cy- bersecurity, business management, information technology and project management. Employees utilize their insatiable drive to accomplish what some others consider a “mission impossible.”
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Moving forward, the company envisions some major projects in the pipeline and Dalton reiterated
that Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® “is in the midst of great growth. We have significant program work to execute and (we) are hiring. Details of this work cannot be shared. We seek highly skilled production artisans and clearance-holding professionals across all disciplines to include Engineering, Finance, and Supply Chain.
Dalton said Skunk Works® has approximately 3,000 employees in California and an additional 1,500 in locations including Fort Worth, Texas and Marietta, Ga. Lockheed Martin Corporation, with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., has locations across the United States and also facilities in foreign na- tions. In all, the company employs a total of about 100,000 people in this country and abroad. Lockheed Martin is listed as LMT on the New York Stock Exchange. It was ranked 59th on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of largest industrial corporations.
Employees specialize in the areas of research, design, development and manufacturing of advanced technology systems, products and services.
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