Northrop Grumman Corporation - Northrop Grumman Corporation The Northrop Grumman Corporation is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between the Northrop Corporation and the Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Major components were added later with the acquisition of Logicon, Litton (Ingalls, Avondale), Newport News, and TRW (sans LucasVarity.) As of 2002, it had 120,000 employees working at hundreds of sites in the US and abroad, and an annual revenue of US$17.2 billion. Born of the shrinking need for defense spending in the wake of the Cold War, Northrop Grumman has a variety of seemingly-unrelated divisions. Divisions as of 2003: Electronic Systems Information Technology Mission Systems Newport News (Newport News Shipbuilding) Ship Systems (Ingalls Shipbuilding) Space Technology.
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation - Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman, its independent existence ended in a 1994 merger with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman. History Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft and the operations moved from New York City to Pennsylvania, Grumman and his partners (Ed Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl) started their own company in a garage in the town of Baldwin on Long Island. The company filed as a business on 5 December 1929, and opened its doors 2 January 1930..
Northrop Corporation - Northrop Corporation The Northrop Corporation was a leading aircraft manufacturer of the United States. In 1994 it merged with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. Jack Northrop actually founded three companies using his name. The first was the Avion Corporation in 1927, which was absorbed in 1929 by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation as a subsidiary named "Northrop Aviation Corporation". The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas (of Douglas Aircraft Company fame), established a "Northrop Corporation" located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta. However, labor difficulties led to the dissolution of the corporation by Douglas in 1937, and the plant became the El Segundo Division of.
E-8 Joint STARS - air-to-ground operations, the E-8C can provide real time information needed to increase ground situation awareness with intelligence support, attack support and targeting operations including attack aviation, naval surface fire, field artillery and friendly maneuver forces. It also provides information for air and land commanders to gain and maintain control of the battle-space and execute against enemy forces. As a battle management and command and control asset, the E-8C can support the full spectrum of roles and missions from peacekeeping operations to major theater war. Joint STARS evolved from US Army and US Air Force programs to develop, detect, locate and attack enemy armor at ranges beyond the forward area of troops. In 1982, the programs were merged and the US Air Force became the lead agent. The prime contract was awarded.
EA-6 Prowler - within a combat area. US Navy EA-6B Prowler. The EA-6B Prowler is a twin-engine, mid-wing aircraft manufactured by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation as a modification of the basic A-6 Intruder air frame. Designed for carrier and advanced base operations, the Prowler is a fully integrated electronic warfare system combining long-range, all-weather capabilities with advanced electronic countermeasures. A forward equipment bay, and pod-shaped faring on the vertical fin, house the additional avionics equipment. The side-by-side cockpit arrangement gives maximum efficiency, visibility and comfort. General Characteristics Primary Function: Electronic countermeasures Contractor: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation Propulsion: Two Pratt & Whitney J52-P408 engines (10,400 pounds thrust each) Length: 59 feet 10 inches (17.7 meters) Wingspan: 53 feet (15.9 meters) Height: 16 feet 8 inches (4.9 meters) Weight: 61,500 pounds (27,450 kg) max gross take-off.
T-38 Talon - T-38 Talon The Northrop T-38 Talon is a US-built supersonic jet trainer for military pilots. It was the world’s first supersonic trainer and remains in service as of 2003. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Dimensions: 3 Performance: History The T-38 was designed in the mid 1950s as the trainer variant of a lightweight fighter project (the N-156 project) by the Northrop Corporation (today part of Northrop Grumman). Although the United States Air Force had no need for a small fighter at the time, it became interested in the trainer as a replacement for the Lockheed T-33s it was then using in this role. The first of three prototypes (designated YT-38) flew on March 10 1959. The type was quickly adopted and the first production examples were.
TRW - see TRW (disambiguation). TRW Incorporated was an American corporation involved in a number of businesses, mostly defense-related, but including automotive supply and credit reporting. On December 12, 2002, Northrop Grumman acquired the defense business, and TRW Automotive became a separate company, soon afterwards acquired by The Blackstone Group. The credit report business is now called Experian. The remotest origin of the company was in the Cleveland Cap Screw Company founded in 1901, which eventually became Thompson Products. The 1958 merge of Thompson with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation was named Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., then shortened to TRW Inc. in 1965. TRW was one of the first companies to build air bags in the 1980s, but problems with the bags forced a recall by Ford Motor in 1990 and 1991. It also ran.
List of American companies - companies #Former companies, including acquired and merged ones #See also Current companies A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z * 3Com Corporation 3M A Acme Markets ADC Telecommunications Adobe Systems Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Aetna Airborne Express Albertson's Alcoa Allen Organ AlliedSignal Inc Amazon.com American Airlines American Express American Reprographics Company Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) Anheuser-Busch Apple Computer ASARCO (American Smelting And Refining COmpany) AT&T AT&T Wireless Autodesk Avaya Avon Products, Inc B Babcock & Wilcox Bank of America Bechtel Corporation Boeing Bristol-Myers Squibb Burlington Northern Santa Fe C Caterpillar Inc ChevronTexaco Cingular Citigroup Cisco Systems, Inc Clear Channel Communications Coca-Cola Colgate-Palmolive Computer Associates Connecticut Leather Company (Coleco) Control Data Corporation.
List of aircraft manufacturers - Blèriot Blohm und Voss Boeing (1916-) Bölkow Bombardier Aerospace Boulton Paul Brantly Breguet (1911-1973) Brewster (1932-1942) Bristol Aeroplane Company British Aerospace (1977-1999) British Aircraft Corporation Britten-Norman Bücker Burgess (1911-1916) C CASA (Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A.) Cessna Champion Chilton Chrislea Comper Consolidated Convair Culver Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1916?-1929) Curtiss-Wright (1929-present) D Deutsche/ Daimler-Benz/ DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) Dassault Aviation de Havilland Dornier Douglas (1920-1967) Druine E EADS Edgley Embraer Entwicklungsring-Süd (EWR) English Electric Enstrom ERCO aka Ercoupe Eurocopter (1992-present) F Fairchild, FairchildDornier Fairey Farman Fiat Fieseler Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH Focke Achgelis Fokker Folland Ford (1925-1945?) Forney Fuji Funk Aircraft G General Aircraft Factory General Dynamics Gloster Gothaer Waggonfabrik (GWF) Grahame-White Grob Grumman (1930-1994) Gulfstream Aerospace (1978-) H Hamburger Flugzeugbau GmbH (HFB) Handley Page Harbin Hawker (1920-1934) Hawker Siddeley Company (1934-1977) Hawker.
List of US defense contractors - contractors. Accenture Ltd Aerospace Center Support Aerospace Corporation Alliant Techsystems Allied-Signal Inc AM General Corporation American Petroleum Institute Anteon International Corporation Applied Research Associates Inc Avondale Industries Inc (division of Northrup Grumman) BAE Systems PLC (British Aerospace) Ball Aerospace & Technologies Ball Corporation Bath Holding Corporation Battelle Memorial Institute Bechtel Corporation Bell Helicopter (divison of Textron) BDM Corporation Boeing Company Boeing Sikorsky Comanche Team Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc Brashear (owned by Nextel) British Nuclear Fuels Limited CACI International Inc Carlyle Group Carnegie Mellon University Charles Stark Draper Laboratories CNA Corporation Concurrent Technologies Corporation Computer Services Corporation Digital System Resources Inc DynCorp Edison Welding Institute EDO Electronic Data Systems Corporation Electric Boat (division of General Dynamics) Environmental Tectonics Corporation Exxon Corporation F M C Technologies Foster Wheeler Ltd Foundation Health Systems.
Japanese submarine I-52 - lead ship of the three Type C-3 submarines designed and constructed by the Mitsubishi Corporation in 1943 and 1944. In March 1944, on her maiden voyage, I-52 departed Kure, Japan, picked up a cargo of 290 tons of strategic materials, including 228 metric tons of tin, 2.3 tons of opium, three tons of quinine, tungsten, 54 tons of rubber, and two tons of gold, in Singapore, and headed through the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. In mid-ocean, she rendezvoused with U-530, a Type IXC/40 U-boat, which provided her with fuel and installed a Naxos radar detector. A Naxos operator and a navigator familiar with the Bay of Biscay joined the Japanese crew to help the submarine survive the final leg of the journey into Lorient. However, unknown to either the.
Ingalls Shipbuilding - originally established in 1938, and currently named the Ingalls Operations division of Northrop-Grumman. It is a leading producer of ships for the US Navy, and at 10,900 employees, the largest private employer in Mississippi. Ingalls is located where the Pascagoula River runs into the Gulf of Mexico. It started out building commercial ships, but in the 1950s started bidding on Navy work, winning a contract in 1957 to build 12 nuclear-powered attack submarines. Litton Industries acquired Ingalls in 1961, and in 1968 expanded its facilities to the other side of the river. Ingalls reached a high point of employment in 1977, with 25,000 workers. Ingalls also produces offshore drilling rigs and cruise ships, and has done naval projects for Egypt, Israel, and Venezuela. Ingalls repaired the USS Cole after it was.
U.S. false claims law (in depth) - the government's name. The claim is filed in camera and under seal in the U.S. District Court with jurisdiction over the claim. Copies of the complaint and a written disclosure of all material evidence and information should be served on the local U.S. Attorney and in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Attorney General. Government Intervention and Involvement The government has chosen to intervene in 22 percent of the cases it has reviewed. The Government has 60 days from the time the sealed complaint is filed to decide whether or not to intervene. However, the Government may obtain an extension for "good cause shown." In almost all cases the government will ask for an additional 60 days to investigate the complaint. In that 120 day period, Justice Department, FBI, Office of Inspector.
F-14 Tomcat - F-14 Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a United States Navy supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-place strike fighter. The Tomcat's primary missions are air superiority, fleet air defense and precision strike against ground targets. Sailors prepare an F-14 Tomcat for flight on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (year 2003). The F-14 has visual and all-weather attack capability to deliver Phoenix and Sparrow missiles as well as the M-61 gun and Sidewinder missiles for close in air-to-air combat. The F-14 also has the LANTIRN targeting system that allows delivery of various laser-guided bombs for precision strikes in air-to-ground combat missions. The F-14, equipped with Tactical Air Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) is the Navy's only manned tactical reconnaissance platform. The F-14 entered.
F-19 - Hornet, the next announced aircraft was the F-20 Tigershark. There have been several theories put forth to explain the omission. The most prevalent theory in the 1980s was that it was the designation of the stealth fighter whose development was an open secret in the aerospace community. In 1986, the Testor Corporation released a model aircraft kit, calling it the "F-19 Stealth Fighter", and in the same year, the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising mentioned an "F-19 Ghostrider". When the actual aircraft was publicly revealed in 1988, it was called the F-117 Nighthawk (an odd designation, although Joe Baugher asserts that the first manuals had the meaningless number "F-117" on the cover, and the designation stuck, despite the apparent connection to the old series of fighter numbers). There seems not.
E-2 Hawkeye - E-2 Hawkeye E-2C Hawkeye. The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is the United States Navy's all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical warning and control system aircraft. The Hawkeye provides all-weather airborne early warning and command and control functions for the carrier battle group. Additional missions include surface surveillance coordination, strike and interceptor control, search and rescue guidance and communications relay. An integral component of the carrier air wing, the E-2C uses computerized sensors to provide early warning, threat analyses and control of counteraction against air and surface targets. It is a high-wing aircraft with stacked antennae elements contained in a 24-foot rotating dome above the fuselage. The peculiar airflow over and around the radar dome led to a multiple-surface tail unit. The continuous improvements in early airborne radars by 1956 led to the.
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) - the ninth and penultimate Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. It was built at Northrop Grumman Newport News (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry dock Company) in Virginia. The keel was laid in 1998 and the ship was launched in 2001 sponsored by Ronald Reagan's wife Nancy. Ronald Reagan was commissioned at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia, on 12 July 2003, under the command of Captain J. W. Goodwin. At the commissioning ceremony, Mrs. Reagan gave the ship's crew their first order as an active unit of the Navy: "Man the ship and bring her to life." The ship displaces approximately 95,000 tons of water fully loaded and has a top speed of over 30 knots, powered by two nuclear reactors driving four screws. It is nearly as long as.
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) - (DD-502), severely crippled. The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on March 6, 1998, and her keel was laid down on January 14, 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on January 11, 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon, of Honolulu, Hawaii, Gordon Chung-Hoon's niece, and will be commissioned in 2004. General Characteristics Length: 511 feet overall, 471 feet waterline Beam: 66 feet extreme, 59 feet waterline Draft: 33 feet maximum, 22 feet limit Displacement: 6600 tons light, 8344 tons full, 1744 tons dead Number of Propellers: 2 Propulsion Type: Gas Turbines Accommodations: 32 officers, 348 enlisted.
USS Cole (DDG-67) - have planned the attack, was killed by the CIA using an AGM-114 Hellfire missile launched from a RQ-1 Predator unmanned drone. Cole was returned to the United States aboard the Norwegian heavy transport ship MV Blue Marlin owned by Offshore Heavy Transport of Oslo, Norway. The ship was off-loaded 13 December 2000, from Blue Marlin in a pre-dredged deep-water facility at the shipyard of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Operations. After a successful 14-month effort to repair the damage Cole departed Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 19 April 2002, and returned to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole left Norfolk on November 29, 2003 on the destroyer's first overseas deployment since it was bombed in the year 2000. Al-Qaida probably targeted the Cole because an earlier attempt to bring down the USS.
USS New York (LPD-21) - are reserved for submarines but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved 28 August 2002. Some of the metal used in its constuction will come from the rubble of the World Trade Center. The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana in 2003. See USS New York for other ships named for the state, and USS New York City for ships named for the city. References This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and various other US Navy Web sites..
