Northrop Grumman's Global Presence
Building on Success
A key element of Northrop Grumman’s growth is its commitment to the international marketplace. The company has a range of industry-leading capabilities available for international markets and sells products and services to customers in 25 nations.
Northrop Grumman has a well-established international presence outside the United States and maintains a network of more than 30 regional business development offices and local businesses serving customers in key international markets in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.
By Region
UNITED KINGDOM
The UK is Northrop Grumman’s largest international customer and remains a critically important market for the company as a supplier base and a source for technology partners. The company has a heritage of operating in the UK that spans 100 years.
Northrop Grumman’s UK-based businesses play a key role in supporting the UK armed forces as well as developing security and resilience capabilities for the UK. Our UK businesses are also significant exporters to countries around the world.
Northrop Grumman operates from ten key locations in the UK and provides avionics, communications, electronic warfare systems, marine navigation systems, robotics, C4I solutions and mission planning, aircraft whole life support, IT systems and software development.
Since 2007 the company has opened four new UK facilities increasing its in-country technical capabilities and enabling it to be more responsive to customers’ needs. Please visit www.northropgrumman.co.uk.
EUROPE
In mainland Europe Northrop Grumman operates from locations in France, Germany, Italy and Norway, providing navigation, air traffic control and postal automation systems. The company also has offices in Belgium and Switzerland.
France
SOLYSTIC is a major player in the postal sorting market and has built its reputation as an industry leader in the field of mail sorting machines and character recognition technology. It has supplied post handling systems in 25-countries on all five continents. SOLYSTIC is based in Gentilly, Paris and at Bourg les Valences near Lyons. Please visit www.solystic.com.
Germany
Northrop Grumman has been established in Germany since 1961 and has facilities in Freiburg and Hamburg.
Northrop Grumman LITEF, based in Freiburg, is a leader in the development and manufacture of navigation and reference systems for air, land and maritime applications for military and civilian customers around the world. Northrop Grumman LITEF is a world leader in fibre-optic gyro systems and has produced and delivered more than 64,000 systems customers. Please visit www.northropgrumman.litef.com.
Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine has its mainland Europe facility in Hamburg, and provides smart navigation and ship control solutions for the international marine industry together with customer service and support. Please visit www.sperrymarine.norrthropgrumman.com.
Italy
Northrop Grumman has been operating from its Pomezia facility near Rome in Italy since 1961 and today Northrop Grumman Italia specialises in the design, development and production of a range of integrated navigation systems. Primarily used in avionics and tactical applications, its products are also for naval and land applications and include Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Air Data Sensors (ADS) and Magnetic Sensor Units (MSU). Please visit www.northropgrumman.it.
Norway
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has facilities in Oslo and Horten, Norway and supplies air traffic management systems for air-space operations worldwide. Please visit www.parkairsystems.com.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Northrop Grumman has had an active presence in the Middle East for more than a decade with its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi, UAE and has well established partnerships with Dubai, the UAE and other countries in the region, where it supports a variety of defence and civil programmes. The company opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2008.
ASIA PACIFIC
Northrop Grumman has offices across the Asia Pacific region: Seoul, Korea; Tokyo; Taipei, Taiwan; Singapore; New Delhi; and Canberra, Australia.
India
Northrop Grumman has been working with the Indian armed forces and Indian industry for more than 25-years. We support India in a variety of defence and civil applications including air traffic control communications systems and radars, unmanned ground vehicles for the Indian Army and marine navigation systems for the Indian Navy and bring significant, capabilities for homeland defence modernization and command & control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C2ISR). We continue to develop our presence in India through strategic industrial partnerships and in 2007 opened offices in New Delhi which has been expanded to include representatives from several Northrop Grumman businesses.
Australia
Northrop Grumman has offices in Canberra and with well-established relationships with Australia and other countries in the region and has been supporting a variety of both defence and civil programs for more than 20 years.
By Capabilities
Air Traffic Management
With UK and Norway-based design and manufacturing capability Northrop Grumman Park Air systems is a global supplier of combined communication, navigation and surveillance systems for airspace management. From individual airport installations to countrywide, multiple-site turnkey integrated system solutions, the company’s air traffic management systems are in operation around the world.
C4I Solutions
A global integrator of complex, mission-enabling systems Northrop Grumman provides integrated C4I solutions for military, civil and public safety applications. Its Command C2PC and ICS products have been in service and incrementally developed for more than 20-years and are among the most widely used strategic command and control systems worldwide.
Unmanned Ground Vehicles
For more than 20-years Northrop Grumman Remotec has been designing and manufacturing unmanned ground vehicle systems in the UK. From the Wheelbarrow bomb disposal robot to CUTLASS, its vehicles can be configured for EOD, ground surveillance, hazardous material and CBRN missions. It has more than 2,000 vehicle systems in operation around the world.