Northrop Grumman

By Brian Everstine
For the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Air Force, devoting the time and money to build an effective bunker-buster bomb is challenging.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Force is replacing its legacy tactical and strategic satellite communications assets with disaggregated and proliferated spacecraft.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
The pace of in-space servicing missions is picking up, with at least nine endeavors planned over the next 18 months.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
A new leader, a funding plan and an architecture outline define the early steps toward Trump’s hawkish homeland defense plan.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
Boeing has landed the Evolved Strategic Satcom program, the U.S. Space Force said, as the service also cancels the Protected Tactical Satcom-Resilient program.
Satellites

By Steve Trimble
Air-launched hypersonic weapons in both glide and powered forms are back in favor.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Robert Wall
Israel’s 12-day operation against Iran provided a master class in gaining control of an adversary’s airspace and, with U.S. help, what can be done afterwards.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension solid rocket motor.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Hanwha Systems and Northrop Grumman have agreed to collaborate on developing integrated air and missile defense systems technology.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman announced June 18 that it will use the Scaled Composites Model 437 Vanguard aircraft as a new testbed to evaluate autonomy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
With Navy acquisition programs already in a “mess,” the Pentagon is skeptical about adding a second sixth-generation fighter onto a strained defense industry.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy are in the midst of a series of upgrades to the MQ-4 Triton uncrewed aircraft fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A DARPA program that set out to demonstrate a new class of UAS has morphed into a drive to transform the way the services acquire capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A sixth-generation fighter is on hold because the U.S. Navy’s top civilian official lost confidence in the defense industry’s ability to take on a new program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi, Robert Wall
Space companies are reading the tea leaves, which they interpret as indicating that future growth points to national security rather than civil programs.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary has integrated twin robotic arms on its Mission Robotic Vehicle.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
Northrop Grumman is adding $50 million to a joint project with Firefly Aerospace to design, own and operate a new Delta II-class medium-lift launch vehicle.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
With the Trump administration looking to hit NASA with significant funding cuts, Northrop is now saying it will likely work less with the agency.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman is pressing the U.S. Air Force to increase the pace of B-21 procurement and the overall buy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Northrop Grumman is offering its Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System to Japan as Tokyo kicks off plans to upgrade the JADGE system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble, Vivienne Machi
A top U.S. military official confirmed that satellites are demonstrating aircraft tracking as the E-7A program faces a cancellation threat from the Pentagon.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force plan to buy 26 Boeing E-7A Wedgetail aircraft faces a cancellation threat.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy flight test announcement revealed work is underway to revive a decades-old concept combining an air-breathing ramjet with a solid fuel rocket.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris
Northrop Grumman says an advanced inertial navigation device that could pave the way for precise hypersonic flight guidance in GPS-denied environments has flown successfully on Stratolaunch’s recently confirmed Talon-A Mach 5-plus test flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion