Overview
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 95,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military technology providers. The firm ranks on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations.
Northrop Grumman and its industry partners have won the Collier Trophy nine times, most recently for work on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Northrop Grumman leads the development of the B-21 Raider, a long-range, stealth strategic bomber that can drop conventional and nuclear weapons; it will replace Northrop's own B-2 Spirit, the world's only known stealth bomber. Among its other projects are development and production of the James Webb Space Telescope, an orbiting observatory launched in 2021, and production of the solid rocket boosters for NASA's Space Launch System program. It was the sole bidder on the Air Force's Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program, which aims to develop and build a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
Business sectors
As of the end of 2022, Northrop Grumman organized its business around four main sectors, each of which comprises two or more business areas:
Aeronautics Systems
Autonomous Systems
Manned Aircraft
Defense Systems
Battle Management & Missile Systems
Mission Readiness
Mission Systems
Airborne Multifunction Sensors
Maritime/Land Systems & Sensors
Navigation, Targeting & Survivability
Networked Information Solutions
Space Systems
Space and Launch
Strategic Missiles
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