Our Mission, Our Products
The mission of Northrop Grumman DS&T is to be DoD's top system developer for battle management decision aids, and platform and weapon mission support systems. We seek to continually expand and improve our capability and capacity to:
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company has a 24-year legacy in critical warfare areas such as strike
warfare; Electronic Warfare (EW); maritime surveillance; Command,
Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I); and,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR). Our key strength is the close
coupling of the operational understanding of the problems associated
with warfare systems and the engineering required to translate that
understanding into a delivered system. The evolution of the engineering
capabilities of Northrop Grumman DS&T has resulted in
engineering processes that enable system designs to be completed for
40% to 70% the industr's average cost. We maintain the close coupling
of operational needs and the engineering process by involving the
warfighters throughout the program, beginning with system design. Over
the years, we have undertaken substantial IR&D initiatives that
have produced tools to facilitate this interaction without the
concomitant negative impacts on program schedule and design, and
ultimately, costs.
Northrop Grumman DS&T is recognized as the expert in both air and surface EW, C4ISR, and Precision Guided Munitions (PGM) planning, targeting and control systems. It is (and has been) the plan of the company to expand this capability into operator control systems on aircraft and ship platforms. This, combined with our increasing maturity as an integrator of combat systems, is positioning Northrop Grumman DS&T to provide large primes and governments software for their systems and subsystems. From its single product legacy (the AN/TSQ -142 EA-6B mission support system), the company has evolved to one that now continues to upgrade this system and also performs:
- US Navy’s Tactical Mobile Variants (TMV), which includes the Tactical Support Centers (TSC), and the US Marine Corps’ Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Software Baseline,
- Systems control for the EA6B ICAP III aircraft;
- AN/SLQ-32 software and support systems;
- Planning modules for non-guided and PGMs. These include: AGM-88, AGM-130, GBU-15, WCMD, AGM-142, and JASSM;
- Joint Defensive Planner (JDP);
- EW support laboratories;
- Upgrade systems software for legacy airborne warning receivers;
- AN/TSQ-221 Maritime system for airborne surveillance and reconnaissance.
Achieving our business goals requires agility and precision. This rapidly changing business environment, coupled with the ever-changing software technology environment, represents a significant challenge to the company. To address this challenge we are continuing to improve upon our software development efficiencies and apply the latest software and information technologies using our well-established engineering processes. The professional growth and training of our engineering is a high priority for the company. With Northrop Grumman DS&T's breath of experience in offensive and defensive warfare areas, platforms, C4I environments, and automated decision aid technology we have demonstrated that we are well prepared to deliver scalable, innovative solutions that exploit computer and information technologies to satisfy emerging military requirements.
