Autonomous Systems

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 26, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered on schedule the telescope structure for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Aug. 24 to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, paving the way for ...

Unmanned helicopter providing unprecedented maritime multiple intelligence persistence POINT MUGU, Calif. – Aug. 25, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated endurance capabilities with the MQ-8C ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug.12, 2015 – The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the formation of stars and galaxies created more than 13.5 billion years ago, was delivered to ...

DEVENS, Mass. – July 30, 2015 – The world's largest ground-based solar telescope is one step closer to operation with the acceptance of the deformable mirror engineered by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company. The Daniel K. ...

CANBERRA, Australia – July 30, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has awarded the first Australian supplier contract for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) initial production lot to Ferra Engineering. ...

Test flights underscore company's Open Mission Systems expertise and commitment for advanced aircraft systems PALMDALE, Calif. – July 20, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) demonstrated in recent test flights that the U.S. Air Force's ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – July 17, 2015 – The first privately-funded vehicle to reach space and one of the most innovative crafts ever flown is part of space history again. A three-inch piece of SpaceShipOne was selected by the Johns Hopkins University ...

LONDON – June 30, 2015 – Students from 13 universities across the U.K. will compete in a fly-off to determine the winner of this year's Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) challenge competition. The competition is ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – June 24, 2015 – Remote-controlled robots that play "basketball" and a website that lets students rate their teachers are among several projects designed by high school students in a mentoring program sponsored by Northrop ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – June 17, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully flew a new Open Mission Systems (OMS) architecture on a NASA Global Hawk, demonstrating the ability to rapidly and affordably adapt new ...