Talk:Northrop Grumman/Archive 3

Updates
Hello, I'm Jan. As an employee at Northrop Grumman, I am interested in helping the Wikipedia community improve the company article. I am familiar with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and will do my due diligence to ensure that I am following the rules, only posting on designated Talk pages.

I would like to offer some updated, reliable sourcing to replace some of the primary sourcing throughout History, reduce the amount of "citation needed" warnings, and source presently unsourced information. Below is text from the article with citations I added where needed:


 * In 1994, Northrop Aircraft bought Grumman Aerospace, which built the Apollo Lunar Module to create Northrop Grumman (NG).


 * In 1996, the new company acquired Westinghouse Electronic Systems, a major manufacturer of radar systems, and Xetron Corporation. In 1997, the defense computer contractor Logicon was added, which had acquired Geodynamics Corporation in March 1996 and Syscon Corporation in February 1995.


 * In 1999, the company acquired Teledyne Ryan, developer of surveillance systems and unmanned aircraft, California Microwave, Inc., and the Data Procurement Corporation.


 * In 1999, Northrop Grumman and SAIC created AMSEC LLC as a joint venture, which grew "from $100 million in revenue in 2000 to approximately $500 million in fiscal year 2007."


 * In 2000, NG acquired Federal Data Corporation, Navia Aviation As, Comptek Research, Inc., and Sterling Software, Inc.


 * In 2001, the company acquired Litton Industries, a shipbuilder and defense electronics systems provider for the U.S. Navy.
 * Later that year, Newport News Shipbuilding was added.


 * In 2002, Northrop Grumman acquired TRW Inc., which had acquired Braddock Dunn & McDonald (BDM) in 1997, and became the Space Technology sector based in Redondo Beach, California, and the Mission Systems sector based in Reston, Virginia, with sole interest in their space systems and laser systems manufacturing. The Aeronautical division was sold to Goodrich, and the automotive divisions were spun off and retained the TRW name.


 * Northrop Grumman partnered with EADS from the mid-2000s to offer the KC-30 Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft


 * On January 1, 2006, Northrop Grumman opened its business sector called 'Technical Services'.


 * Northrop Grumman and Boeing collaborated on a design concept for NASA's upcoming Orion spacecraft (previously the Crew Exploration Vehicle), but the contract went to rival Lockheed Martin on August 31, 2006.


 * In February 2008 the U.S. Air Force chose KC-30,


 * In January 2008, Northrop Grumman combined its Newport News and Ship Systems sectors into a new business unit named Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding


 * In November 2010, NASA selected Northrop Grumman for consideration of potential contract awards for heavy lift launch vehicle system concepts, and propulsion technologies.


 * The acquired company assets and naming were absorbed and become a division named Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.

I will continue to find more sourcing to improve references throughout the article. Meantime, this is a start! My hope is that someone will review and implement these suggestions if they see fit. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback or questions. Thank you! JanAtNorthropGrumman (talk) 18:06, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

✅ Thank you. JanAtNorthropGrumman (talk) 13:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * And thank you to for not only taking the time to list out all the issues with the article in need of updating or correction, and adding sources for support, but for also doing so here on the talk page to help avoid any COI issues. It's rare that this happens, (or at least, it doesn't happen as often as is should). And thank you to user  for responding and implementing the edits. Its nice to see the system work as it should. Both of you deserve "Team-work Barnstars" (which have now been given). Cheers to both of you. -  wolf  01:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Updates to corporate information
Hello, I'm Jan. As an employee at Northrop Grumman, I am interested in helping the Wikipedia community improve the company article. I am familiar with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and will do my due diligence to ensure that I am following the rules, only posting on designated Talk pages.

I would like to offer a new section that consolidates the Corporate governance and Corporate headquarters sections into one, and include some basic company stats. The result is a section I named Corporate affairs, yet I'm open to other headers. The section includes an overview of the company's structure and size, then summarizes info on the company's headquarters and its move (the live article contains a lot of minutia), and updates the company's governance to reflect the current leadership change. Also, I removed Gloria Flach from the corporate headquarters information, as she retired.

Northrop Grumman is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NOC. The company is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, and employs about 85,000 people companywide, as of 2018. , Northrop Grumman was the fourth-largest defense firm in the world, according to Defense News.

Prior to moving to Falls Church in 2011, Northrop Grumman was headquartered in Century City, Los Angeles. Northrop Grumman announced plans on January 4, 2010 to move to the Washington metropolitan area to be closer to government customers. Then-CEO Wesley G. Bush stated that the company needed to be located close to Capitol Hill lawmakers and officials from intelligence and military communities.

Northrop Grumman's CEO is Kathy J. Warden, who succeeded Bush on January 1, 2019. Warden previously served as president and chief operating officer. The company is governed by a board of directors, which is chaired by Bush, the former CEO.

From 1990 to 2003, before the merger with Grumman in 1994, Kent Kresa was the CEO of the company, who led a serial-acquisition strategy with a total of 15 additional acquisitions from 1994 to 2003, including Litton, Logicon, Westinghouse's defense electronics business, Ryan Aeronautical, Newport News Shipbuilding, and TRW. He then retired in 2003 at age 65.

In 2003, Ronald Sugar, the former chief operating officer, took over as CEO. Effective October 1, 2003, Sugar also served as the company chairman of the board.

In January 2010, Wes Bush succeeded as CEO and became company president. He previously served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and president.

My hope is that someone will review and implement these suggestions if they see fit. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any feedback or questions. Thank you! JanAtNorthropGrumman (talk) 19:41, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

What doing Northrop Grumman Merger Talk
Northrop Corporation and Grumman Corporation Merged since 1994 Muhammad Alfarezal (talk) 07:39, 31 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Is this a comment or a question? I don't understand it. BilCat (talk) 07:46, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Dubious tag, April 2022
The dubious tag was inserted concerning contentions about the B-21 Raider, because the letter "B" in aircraft designation typically stands for "Boeing" (e.g. B-17 Fortress, B-29 Super Fortress, etc. all of which are Boeing aircraft in addition to being long-range bombers), making it highly questionable that Boeing's competitor would be the designer. If "B" in fact designates a "bomber" then there needs to be a reference citation to that effect. For now, due to what few contradictory sources I was able to find on point, the dubious tag was inserted as opposed to the more citations needed / citation needed tag. 98.178.191.34 (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Not at all. The B is for bomber per the US military's 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system. The B-21 follows the B-1 and B-2 in this system (skipping a lot of numbers). -Fnlayson (talk) 21:52, 2 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Just a few non-Boeing bombers with B-designations include the B-24, B-25, B-26 (2 of them), B-32, and B-70 in the old series, and the B-1 and B-2 in the new series. BilCat (talk) 22:44, 2 April 2022 (UTC)