Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

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Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (NGES) was a business segment of Northrop Grumman from 1996 to 2015 until a reorganization on January 1, 2016 merged other Northrop Grumman businesses into NGES to form a new segment called Mission Systems.[1] NGES had originally been created by Northrop Grumman's acquisition of Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group in 1996. The Electronic Systems sector was a designer, developer, and manufacturer of a wide variety of advanced defense electronics and systems. The division had 120 locations worldwide, including 72 international offices, and approximately 24,000 employees; accounting for 20% of company sales in 2005.[2]

Organization Divisions

Headquartered outside

BWI
), Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems was organized into the following divisions:

  • Advanced Concepts & Technologies
  • Aerospace Systems
  • Naval & Marine Systems
  • Defensive Systems
  • Navigation Systems
  • Government Systems
  • Space & ISR Systems

Systems

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems provided:

Key Products

Key products included

naval propulsion
and power generation systems.

History

Electronic Systems dates to 1938 when

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
.

In 1939, Westinghouse more than doubled its manufacturing area in its Baltimore location to accommodate the production of the then highly-secret

SCR-270 aircraft warning radar. In 1941, an SCR-270 radar detected the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor, however, its warnings went unheeded because of high-level uncertainty about the new technology's reliability. The first ground-based radar built for the Army Signal Corps, the SCR-270, proved to be the only model to stay in action throughout all of World War II
. From 1941–1945, the Westinghouse Radio Division manufactured approximately 50 products during the war. Until 1942, most of this was radio equipment; later, production shifted to radar products. Wartime production included ground-based and naval radio and radar, electronic fuses, and torpedoes.

In 1953, the unit patented key technologies for

F-4 Phantom II fighter, was produced by the division. In 1947, Westinghouse acquired Joshua Hendy Iron Works
.

In 1974, the division began development of the

E-3 Sentry AWACS long-range airborne surveillance radar. In 1996, Westinghouse was selected to design, build, and test the radar for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which eventually became the AN/APG-81
.

Expansion within Northrop Grumman

Electronic Systems was central to Northrop Grumman's aggressive merger and acquisition strategy since its acquisition in 1996. Parts or all of the following companies or organizations were part of the sector: Westinghouse Electronic Systems, California Microwave,

Xetron Corporation
, Aerojet Corporation Electronics & Information Systems, and Fibersense Technology Corp. During the period from 1996 to 2005, Electronic Systems' annual sales increased from US$2.3B to US$6.6B through organic growth as well as acquisitions.

See also

References

  1. ^ Supply chain partner announcement by VP Jaime Bohnke dated 2016-01-12
  2. ^ Northrop Grumman Corporation (2006), 2005 Annual Report
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