Items Tagged with 'Northrop Grumman Corp.'

Wearable devices help assemblers navigate complex work instructions.

More than a decade ago, Northrop Grumman adopted production technology from the auto industry and unveiled an automated assembly line to mass-produce fuselages for the F-35 jet fighter.

Here’s a brief look at the diverse facilities that have received the Assembly Plant of the Year award.

WASHINGTON—Engineers at NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program are examining supersonic commercial flight.

HUNTSVILLE, AL—Northrop Grumman Corp. has renovated and opened an assembly facility here to support the U.S. Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.

GILBERT, AZ – Northrop Grumman Corp. begins an expansion of the satellite engineering and manufacturing operations in Arizona.

OGDEN, UT—Northrop Grumman Corp. recently broke ground here on the future headquarters for its Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program, which is slated to add 2,500 jobs.

DULLES, VA—Airbus and Northrop Grumman Corp are partnering to develop next-generation composite manufacturing technology. The three-year Wing of Tomorrow program will explore complex composite wing stiffener forming automation and out-of-autoclave material systems.

PALMDALE, CA—The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an $80 billion contract to build the new Long Range Strike Bomber.

PALMDALE, CA—Assemblers at Northrop Grumman Corp.’s plant here recently started to use an optical projection system to build the center fuselage of the F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. The facility was the recipient of ASSEMBLY’s 2013 Assembly Plant of the Year award.