COTS COMPANY PROFILE:
Northrop Grumman By John Reardon, Editor
The company’s history goes well beyond the companies founded by Jack Northrop and Leroy Grumman. Today’s Northrop Grumman is a result of the integration of over 20 pioneering companies from across the aerospace, technology, and defense industries, each with their unique history of defining the possible. In the early days, the path that the company took was closely associated with John Knudsen Northrop until his retirement in 1952. Northrop has four business units that make up this 90,000
Image 1 - Northrop’s OmegA Rocket being assembled in Promontory Utah. 20
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person company. They are Aeronautical Systems, Defense Systems, Mission Systems, and Space Systems. Aeronautical Systems, headquartered in Redondo Beach, California, produces aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, and microelectronics for the U.S. and other nations. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland creates military radar, sensors, and related products, including C4I radar systems for air defense, Airspace Management radar systems. Technology Services. The Technology Services sector headquartered in McNair, Virginia works on “the entire life cy-
