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Northrop Grumman

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Falls Church, Virginia, United States
www.northropgrumman.com/
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Northrop Grumman’s federal IT and mission support services business is expected to generate approximately $2,300,000,000 in revenue in 2020.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductDec 7, 2020Northrop Grumman’s Federal IT and Mission Support Business Sells to Veritas Capital for $3.4 Billion

Peraton, an affiliate of Veritas Capital, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Northrop Grumman’s federal IT and mission support services business for $3,400,000,000 in cash.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 7, 2020Northrop Grumman’s Federal IT and Mission Support Business Sells to Veritas Capital for $3.4 Billion

The BE-7 will also power the transfer element led by Northrop Grumman and based on the Cygnus spacecraft, which will move the lander from a highly elliptical near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon to a low lunar orbit.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductDec 4, 2020Blue Origin continues work on BE-7 lunar lander engine

Northrop Grumman leverages expertise gained from the Defense Support Program to provide critical capabilities to its customers.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanOrg RelationshipNov 20, 2020Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations

Northrop Grumman is tasked with developing a payload design for the Next-Gen Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductNov 20, 2020Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations

The U.S. Space Force selected Northrop Grumman to design and develop two polar-orbiting space vehicles for the Next-Gen Overhead Persistent Infrared system.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductNov 20, 2020Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations

Northrop Grumman’s Space Tracking and Surveillance System satellites work with the Defense Support Program to provide critical support for missile and national defense.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralNov 20, 2020Northrop Grumman Celebrating 50 Years of Successful USAF Defense Support Operations

The first Mission Extension Vehicle built by Northrop Grumman subsidiary SpaceLogistics docked with an Intelsat satellite in February 2020.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralNov 17, 2020Orbit Fab to launch first fuel tanker in 2021 with Spaceflight

Northrop Grumman has supplied rocket propulsion to United Launch Alliance and its heritage companies since 1964.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanOrg RelationshipNov 14, 2020UPDATED: United Launch Alliance’s Successful Launch of NROL-101 In Support Of National Security

The GEM 63 strap-on boosters were developed under a cooperative agreement between Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance to provide additional lift capability for the Atlas V launch vehicle.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 14, 2020UPDATED: United Launch Alliance’s Successful Launch of NROL-101 In Support Of National Security

The NROL-101 launch was the first Atlas 5 flight to use GEM 63 rocket motors made by Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralNov 13, 2020ULA Atlas 5 launches National Reconnaissance Office satellite

The Atlas 5 on NROL-101 flew with a five-meter payload fairing, three Northrop Grumman GEM 63 solid rocket boosters side-mounted to the first stage, and a single RL10C-1 engine on the Centaur upper stage.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralNov 13, 2020ULA Atlas 5 launches National Reconnaissance Office satellite

United Launch Alliance plans to fly GEM 63 boosters on future Atlas 5 missions while Northrop Grumman completes development of the larger GEM 63XL for ULA’s Vulcan Centaur.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative PlanNov 13, 2020ULA Atlas 5 launches National Reconnaissance Office satellite

NASA justified the sole-source award to Northrop Grumman based on Northrop’s prior work under an earlier habitat development program that NASA judged could have HALO ready in time to support a 2024 mission.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductNov 12, 2020Changing NASA requirements caused cost and schedule problems for Gateway

NASA took longer than planned to define the HALO contract with Northrop Grumman because of the decision to launch HALO with the PPE and changing HALO requirements.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 12, 2020Changing NASA requirements caused cost and schedule problems for Gateway

NASA announced its intent in July 2019 to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 12, 2020Changing NASA requirements caused cost and schedule problems for Gateway

Northrop Grumman received a $298,000,000 contract for an ESS prototype on 2020-09-16.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 12, 2020Senate report criticizes Space Force plan to acquire secure, nuclear-survivable satcom

Intelsat and SES ordered 13 geostationary satellites this summer from Boeing, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman and Thales Alenia Space.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 9, 2020C-band bonanza bails out sluggish year for satellite orders

Intelsat ordered two C-band satellites from Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanTechnical ProductNov 9, 2020C-band bonanza bails out sluggish year for satellite orders

DARPA’s RSGS program will demonstrate satellite servicing using a government-developed servicing payload installed on a billboard satellite bus provided by Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductNov 4, 2020OSAM, a new initiative to promote satellite servicing among U.S. government agencies launched
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