Northrop Grumman is a prominent American multinational aerospace and defense company deeply involved in the space industry. As a space technology and launch systems provider, they manufacture spacecraft, satellites, and precision sensors. They are a major partner with NASA, providing cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) through their Cygnus spacecraft and contributing to projects like the James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman is also involved in developing advanced autonomous systems for military and commercial applications.
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Under the terms of the Orbital ATK acquisition, Northrop Grumman was obligated to supply solid rocket motors to competitors on a non-discriminatory basis and to establish firewalls to prevent misuse of proprietary information.
Northrop Grumman and Boeing were competing for the Air Force Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program to develop and build the next-generation ICBM during the time of the Orbital ATK acquisition.
The acquisition of Orbital ATK by Northrop Grumman was approved in June 2018.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,300,000,000 contract for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent in September 2020.
The Federal Trade Commission is weighing legal action against Northrop Grumman for alleged violations of the 2018 agreement that allowed Northrop to acquire Orbital ATK.
Northrop Grumman announced in September 2017 that it would acquire Orbital ATK for $7,800,000,000.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 deal and Northrop Grumman won a $617,000,000 contract for Tranche 1 work.
The Missile Defense Agency plans to launch two HBTSS prototypes, one from L3Harris and one from Northrop Grumman, to test sensor capabilities to track hypersonic and dim upper-stage ballistic missiles.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract to develop the BOLE booster in December 2021.
Airbus was awarded a contract to provide 42 satellite buses for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation that Northrop Grumman is developing for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
Both L3Harris and Northrop Grumman were awarded other transaction agreements for Tracking Layer Tranche 1, which require contractors to team with nontraditional commercial vendors.
Northrop Grumman’s T1TRK satellites will operate in up to four low-Earth-orbit planes and will be interconnected with Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman have been working together since 2019 to develop, produce, and integrate Northrop Grumman’s scramjet engines onto Raytheon’s air-breathing hypersonic weapons.
Northrop Grumman won a $617,000,000 contract for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
Each Northrop Grumman T1TRK satellite will feature a wide field-of-view infrared sensor, three optical communications terminals, and a Ka-band payload for communications.
Northrop Grumman previously won a 42-satellite contract for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 broadband constellation.
Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems of Redondo Beach, California was awarded a Tranche 1 Tracking Layer prototype agreement.
Raytheon Missiles & Defense partnered with Northrop Grumman to complete a second flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman on 2022-07-18 to each build 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer.
Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems was awarded a Tranche 1 Tracking Layer prototype agreement with a potential value of approximately $617,000,000.