Northrop Grumman

By Brian Everstine
Video confirms the flying-wing aircraft has a simple W-shape trailing edge and reveals an extremely clean design with an almost featureless underside.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Readers write about Bill Sweetman’s recent B-21 cover story, AAM market appeal, U.S. military drone swarm acquisition and supersonic transport challenges.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Michael Bruno, Brian Everstine
Aviation Week editors take a break from Day 2 of the A&D Programs conference to tease out the intractable issues facing the industrial base.
Check 6

By Brian Everstine
As E-2Cs retire, the service begins phased upgrades to the E-2D fleet, ending with the biggest modernization since it began fielding Advanced Hawkeyes in 2007.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
DARPA plans to select designs from one or more of the companies to build a prototype to fly in 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman and York will build another 100 data transport satellites under new $1.3 billion contracts from the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Matthew Fulco
Northrop Grumman beat Wall Street’s estimates of its revenue and earnings per share (EPS) in the third quarter.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
The defense giant has transferred all intellectual property for its hybrid airships to spinoff AT² Aerospace.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to bid on the modernization of the UK’s Skynet military communications satellites.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Hanwha Systems has unveiled a new active electronically scanned array radar designed for light combat aircraft, uncrewed combat aerial systems and helicopters.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Korea Aerospace Industries has selected Northrop Grumman’s Airborne Laser Mine Detection System for a new variant of the MUH-1 Marineon helicopter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) proposal has completed its digital all-up-round preliminary design review (PDR).
Missile Defense & Weapons

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

By Irene Klotz
The company plans to develop a fully autonomous docking system for the Cygnus.
Commercial Space

Bill Sweetman
New details reveal the heritage embedded in the new U.S. bomber design.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Bill Sweetman
A microcutaway of what we think we know about features on the U.S. Air Force’s next stealth bomber.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A market survey released by the Air Force calls for higher engine thrust than what candidates for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft have flown so far.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Northrop was one of four teams to win NASA funding for early development of commercial LEO platforms.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The image released by the 412th Test Wing shows a portion of the missile where the solid rocket motor of the booster stage connects to the exhaust section.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Congress has authorized ISS operations through 2030.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The $705 million contract for the Stand-in Attack Weapon calls for Northrop Grumman to have the new missile ready to to enter service in 2026.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Yemen’s Houthi movement has restored a Northrop F-5 Tiger combat aircraft to flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Space Systems Command has awarded Astroscale U.S. a $25.5 million contract to deliver by 2026 a prototype spacecraft that can refuel other satellites in space.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The company is providing development work for F/A-XX.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Bill Sweetman
The U.S. plan for TacAir has many strands, providing multiple opportunities for angst—or catastrophe.
Budget, Policy & Operations