Cyber Resilience - Northrop Grumman

Pulse on Building the Cyber Workforce

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:28:00 GMT

Checking the pulse on the future of our cyber workforce was the subject of a livestream discussion , hosted by Northrop Grumman, which featured experts from academia and industry who dispelled stereotypes and highlighted what’s working in the national...

Northrop Grumman to Showcase Advanced Technologies for the US Army

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:30:00 GMT

WASHINGTON D.C. – Sept. 27, 2016 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will highlight a full range of solutions for the many missions of the U.S. Army at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, taking place Oct. 3-5 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

Northrop Grumman’s AUSA exhibit booth #1125 will spotlight tailored enhancements that help preserve command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) dominance, expand mission capabilities and create tomorrow’s solutions for today’s Army force.

Featured in the booth will be the company’s digital helicopter cockpit and integrated avionics solutions. Derived from the U.S. Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk program, the system offers an affordable, integrated suite of avionics equipment. The system’s integrated architecture can be applied to many platforms and sustained through a single software package. Northrop Grumman’s avionics solution capitalizes on the company’s leadership and history in weapons and sensor integration, including development of the first airborne fire control computer nearly 50 years ago.

Also featured in the booth will be Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), a revolutionary command-and-control (C2) system developed to deliver a single, unambiguous view of the battlespace. This significantly enhanced aircraft and missile tracking improves the ability of combatant commanders and air defenders to make critical decisions within seconds.

Other systems and capabilities on display will include:

Aviation Solutions

Integrated ASE and Situational Awareness
Family of Tactical Radars
Guardrail
UH-60V Black Hawk Cockpit Digitization Upgrade solution

Cyber Capabilities

Cyber Resiliency IRAD
Fusion Genesis

Fires Capabilities

Family of AESA Radars
Ballistic Missile Detection / JTAGS / DAS Hostile Fire
Precision Targeting
Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS)

Maneuver Capabilities

Hellhound Light Reconnaissance Vehicle
HMMWV Modernization Solution

Mission Command Solutions

Ground Communications
Worldwide Navigation Systems
Freedom Tactical Radios (manpack jammer, vehicular and airborne radios)
Smart Node Pod
Global Combat Support System–Army
Biometric Ecosystem (BioSled, BioBroker, BioVector)
Secure Communications System
TEMPO

Information on the solutions displayed at the show is available online at: http://www.northropgrumman.com/AUSA

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, and logistics and modernization to customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.

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Northrop Grumman Wins Research Contract from DHS to Strengthen Mobile Security Applications

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:00:00 GMT

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 25, 2015 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) was awarded a contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate to develop advanced biometric solutions that will enhance mobile security for users while virtually eliminating the need for a password.

Northrop Grumman will combine advanced behavioral sensing and modeling techniques, derived from two of its university research projects, to authenticate user identity. Instead of a password or pin, behavioral characteristics gathered by sensors on a device will authenticate user identity. Simply put, how a user picks up and handles a device â a highly secure and irreproducible function â will permit access.

"As the government moves to a more mobile business model, this new technology mitigates risk so users can take advantage of the newest mobile applications in a trusted state," said Shawn Purvis, vice president and general manager, cyber division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems. "From the warfighter to the civil servant, we are integrating solutions to optimize ease and performance while layering our defense-in-depth approach to protect everything from the perimeter to the data."

Under a $1.7 million Mobile Technology Security (MTS) research and development (R&D) award , Northrop Grumman is leveraging a research project on threat behavior modeling originally developed through its Cybersecurity Research Consortium partner Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) cybersecurity institute, CyLab. In this approach, sensors on the device track and capture user behavior and compare that data against a user profile automatically derived through machine-learning techniques. This technology has since spun off into a company called Zense Inc. ( www.zense.io ), now a teammate on this project.

Enhancing this feature is another project on mobile challenge response techniques that the company sponsored at Iowa State University through the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S ² ERC), an NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. To authenticate a user, the device simply generates a curve on the display that the user must then trace on the touch screen. As the user swipes across the screen, unique pressure points are calibrated that cannot be replicated across users, thus ensuring another level of security and authenticity. If a user is not able to authenticate, the device will lock or, in extreme situations, be wiped automatically.

Added Purvis, "This project is an example of how we are working with our academic research partners to integrate next-generation technologies in an innovative way to address a national security imperative."

Northrop Grumman's Cybersecurity Research Consortium includes Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University and the University of Southern California. Formed in 2009, the consortium aims to advance research and develop solutions to counter the complex cyber threats that face our economy, our freedom of information, and our national security.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit www.northropgrumman.com for more information.

  CONTACT: Marynoele Benson
         703-556-1651
         marynoele.benson@ngc.com

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