Full Description

Northrop Grumman Corporation (Northrop Grumman) is an integrated enterprise consisting of businesses that cover the entire defense spectrum, from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. The Company is aligned into seven segments categorized into four primary businesses. The Mission Systems, Information Technology, and Technical Services segments are presented as Information and Services. The Integrated Systems and Space Technology segments are presented as Aerospace. The Electronics and Ships segments are each presented as separate businesses. In January 2008, the Newport News and Ship Systems businesses were realigned into a single operating segment called Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. In April 2008, the Company announced that it has completed the sale of its Electro-Optical Systems business to L-3 Communications. In October 2008, the Company acquired 3001 International, Inc. (3001). In July 2009, Global Equity Capital, LLC acquired independent information technology services organization serving the commercial market from the Company.

In January 2009, Northrop Grumman streamlined its organizational structure by reducing the number of reporting segments from seven to five. The five segments are Aerospace Systems, which combines the former Integrated Systems and Space Technology segments; Electronic Systems; Information Systems, which combines the former Information Technology and Mission Systems segments; Shipbuilding and Technical Services.

Mission Systems

The Mission Systems segment is a global systems integrator of complex, mission-enabling systems for government, military and commercial customers. The segment consists of two areas of business: Command, Control and Communications (C3) and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). C3 supports the Department of Defense (DoD), aerospace prime contractors and other customers. ISR supports the Intelligence Community, the DoD and other federal agencies.

Information Technology

The Information Technology segment is a provider of information technology (IT) systems engineering and systems integration for the DoD, national intelligence, federal, civilian, state and local agencies, and commercial customers. It consists of four areas of business: Intelligence; Civilian Agencies; Commercial, State and Local, and Defense. Intelligence provides IT systems, services and solutions primarily to the United States Intelligence Community, which includes customers in national agencies, defense, homeland security, and other agencies at the federal, state and local level. Civilian Agencies provides IT systems, services and solutions primarily for federal civilian agencies, as well as government and commercial healthcare customers. Commercial, State and Local provides IT systems, services and solutions primarily for state and local agencies and commercial customers. Defense provides IT systems, services and solutions to all elements of the DoD, including the air force, navy, army, marines, the office of the Secretary of Defense and the Unified Combatant Commands.

Technical Services

The Technical Services segment provides infrastructure management and maintenance, training and preparedness, and logistics and life cycle management in an array of operating environments. The segment consists of three areas of business: Systems Support; Training and Simulation, and Life Cycle Optimization and Engineering. Systems Support provides infrastructure and base operations management, including base support and civil engineering work, military aerial and ground range operations, support functions, which include space launch services, construction, combat vehicle maintenance, protective and emergency services, and range-sensor-instrumentation operations. Training and Simulation provides realistic training to senior military leaders and peacekeeping forces, designs and develops future conflict training scenarios, and provides United States warfighters and international allies with live, virtual, and constructive training programs. Life Cycle Optimization and Engineering provides life cycle product support and weapons system sustainment.

Integrated Systems

The Integrated Systems segment designs, develops, produces, and supports missionized integrated systems and subsystems in the areas of battlespace awareness, command and control systems, integrated combat systems, and airborne ground surveillance. Integrated Systems is involved in several manned vehicle programs, such as subcontractor work on the F/A-18 and F-35 programs and prime contract work on the B-2 program and the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP). Integrated Systems is also involved in unmanned vehicle programs, such as the Global Hawk, the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D), Aerial Targets and the Fire Scout. Integrated Systems is the prime contractor for these product lines with the exception of the Army version of Fire Scout for Future Combat Systems (FCS). Other Integrated Systems programs include the Littoral Combat Ship Mission Package Integration contract and Mine Counter Measures contracts with multiple customers that focus on detecting and neutralizing in-land, coastal and water surface/subsurface mines.

Space Technology

The Space Technology segment develops and integrates a range of systems at the edge of space, defense, and electronics technology. The segment provides products primarily to the United States Government to maintain the nation’s security and leadership in science and technology. Products and services are grouped into the areas of business: Civil Systems; Military Systems; Missile Systems; National Systems, and Technology and Emerging Systems (Technology). The Civil Systems business area produces and integrates space-based systems, instruments, and services primarily for United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other governmental agencies. Military Systems produces and integrates spiral development programs and operational programs associated with the United States Air Force, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and other military customers. Missile Systems supports the United States Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) program, the MDA Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) program and other missile customers. The National Systems business area gives the nation’s monitoring systems a global reach and national security.

Electronics

The Electronics segment designs, develops, produces, integrates, and supports performance sensors, intelligence processing, and navigation systems, test and simulation systems, and weapons operating in all environments from undersea to outer space and cyberspace. It also develops, produces, integrates, and supports power, power control, and ship control systems for commercial and naval ships in domestic and international markets. The segment is composed of seven areas of business: Aerospace Systems; Defensive Systems; Government Systems; Land Forces; Naval and Marine Systems; Navigation Systems, and Space and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems.

Aerospace systems provides sensors, sensor processing, integrated sensor suites, and radar countermeasure systems for military surveillance and precision-strike; missile tracking and warning; space satellite applications, and radio frequency electronic warfare. Defensive systems provides systems that support combat aviation by protecting aircraft and helicopters from attack, by providing capabilities for targeting and tactical surveillance. Government Systems provides products and services to meet the needs of governments for their civil and military infrastructure and of their combat and counter-terrorism operations. Land Forces provides a range of warfighting system solutions for the digital battlefield, including fire control systems for airborne and tracked vehicles, air and ground sensors to detect enemy movement, tactical range finding and precise laser designation, and systems that detect and defend against enemy fire. Naval and Marine Systems provides subsystems and subsystem integration for sensors, sensor processing, missile launching, ship controls and power generation. Navigation Systems provides navigation, avionics systems, and command and control centers for military and commercial applications. Space and ISR Systems provides space-based sensor and exploitation systems for civil, military, and intelligence community customers, as well as ground/surface based command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions to process, exploit, and disseminate multi-sensor data.

Shipbuilding

The Shipbuilding segment includes the business, such as Aircraft Carriers, Expeditionary Warfare, Surface Combatants, Submarines, Coast Guard and Coastal Defense, Fleet Support; Commercial, and

Services and Other. Expeditionary Warfare programs include the design and construction of amphibious assault ships for the United States Navy, including the LHD 1 WASP class and the San Antonio LPD 17 class. Surface Combatants includes the design and construction of the Arleigh Burke DDG 51 class Aegis guided missile destroyers, and the design of DDG 1000 (previously DD(X)), the Navy’s future transformational surface combatant class. Northrop Grumman designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines. Fleet Support provides after-market services, including on-going maintenance and repair work, for an array of naval and commercial vessels.

The Company competes with Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company and General Dynamics Corporation.