Technology

Our nation's security depends upon sophisticated space systems, microelectronics and aircraft avionics - technologies developed, designed and integrated by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Advanced technologies are our specialty. Since our company's inception over 50 years ago — when President Eisenhower asked us to manage what was then the nation's highest priority program, the ICBM or Inter-continental Ballistic Missile —  we've used our unique technological capabilities to solve the nation's toughest problems. Presently, we're directing our technologies toward four primary applications:

• National security, such as ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance)
• Laser weapons for missile defense, from understanding the basic phenomenology
  to integrating advanced sensor systems to detect, track and defeat enemy targets
• Civil space, such as environmental monitoring and space science
• Software-defined radios

Fulfilling each of these critical mission areas - and preparing to address our nation's future needs - depends on talent and technology that span every possible scientific and engineering discipline including:

• Lasers
• Electronics
• Spacecraft platforms and enabling technologies
• Systems Engineering
• Sensors and instruments
• Antennas

Explore the work of our world-class scientists, engineers and business professionals who've mastered complex technologies and created new ones to solve seemingly insurmountable problems.