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Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea: Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...; Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho; Image galleries 2007-08-09
Image: Laser defense for airports: Northrop Grumman unveils the Skyguard, a laser weapon system it says can create a shield to ward off missile attacks.; Tags: laser, Northrop Grumman Corp., shield, attack; Image galleries 2006-07-13
Image: Laser defense for airports: Northrop Grumman unveils the Skyguard, a laser weapon system it says can create a shield to ward off missile attacks.; Tags: laser, Northrop Grumman Corp., shield, attack; Image galleries 2006-07-13
Northrop Grumman Group Improves Resource Management With New Solution: Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global aerospace and defense company. In recent years, its Airborne Early Warning and Electronic Warfare Systems (AEW & EWS) Business Area underwent rapid growth, which caused some project management practices suitable for smaller projects to become inefficient for larger contract and project engagements. Because its...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Case studies 2006-07-01
The Intelligence Education Framework for the 21st Century: This paper addresses the concept of establishing a community-wide intelligence education framework that meets the needs of intelligence professionals at all levels of federal, state, and local government. In its current form, Intelligence Education and Training IET is composed of many schools and programs that cover the intelligence cycle. However,...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Government, Quality, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-08-15

Defense Message System: DMS: Northrop Grumman Information Technology IT has provided DMS support to the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Defense Information Systems Agency DISA for the past 12 years. This support includes: program management, engineering, network design, site survey, architectures, detailed design, implementation planning, testing, configuration management, integration, installation, help desk, and sustainment....; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, Networking, It Operations, Management; White papers 2005-07-23
TerrainTable: For mission planning and operations, it is critical for decision-makers and strategic planners to have an in-depth understanding of the terrain surrounding an area of interest. Until now, this was accomplished with two-dimensional displays and paper maps. These tools depict elevation and terrain in terms of size, shape and orientation,...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Terrain, Productivity; White papers 2005-07-18
Dynamic Situational Awareness: GeoWireless Solutions: Securing our borders and infrastructures from potential threats and vulnerabilities requires a coordinated response between multiple government agencies and first responders. Dynamically updating and quickly disseminating information about the current situation empowers all organizations with the ability to make informed decisions and provide improved situational awareness and readiness. TASC, a...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Homeland Security, Government; White papers 2005-07-13
Rapid System Engineering Assessment of Voice-Over-IP Deployment Decisions: This paper presents a system engineering approach to VoIP analyses that allows an organization's management to use nominal data, modified as needed to reflect organization-unique requirements, to assess the potential of VoIP and reach a quick decision on deployment. The VoIP repository discussed at the end of this paper provides...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking; White papers 2005-07-06
Identity Infrastructure, Privacy Protection (i2P2): Security and Privacy Together: The Identity Infrastructure, Privacy Protection (i2P2) security framework - Northrop Grumman patent pending - is an innovative extension of a standard public key infrastructure system, specifically addressing the issue of biometrics interoperability, while eliminating the private key. The i2P2 technology enables a privilege holder to migrate seamlessly across an identity...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Privacy, i2P2 Technology, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Biometrics, Digital Security, Security, Network Security, Networking; White papers 2005-07-06
TouchTable: Whether analyzing urban sprawl, terrorist threats, evacuation routes or mission operations, the way we think about and interact with information is changing. Analysts, planners and tactical personnel need to be able to visualize areas of interest while maintaining ready access to data sources. This, combined with the growing need for...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-07-01
Gateway Manager: As required by today's Network Centric Warfare, Northrop Grumman's Gateway Manager tactical router provides warfighter with the power to deliver the right information to the right place at the right time. It enables flexible tactical data communication among participating units ranging from local operations to a global span. The Gateway...; Tags: Gateway Inc., Northrop Grumman Corp., Gateway Manager, Routers & Switches, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2005-04-29
Smart Video Surveillance Technology Assessment: In March 2004, Northrop Grumman Information Technology IT TASC was one of three participants invited to take part in an operational assessment of smart video surveillance systems SVSS based on a competitive procurement down select. The assessment was hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy DOE and conducted by the...; Tags: Video Surveillance, Assessment, Northrop Grumman Corp., Video, National Assessment Group, Purchasing & Procurement, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Marketing; White papers 2005-01-28
Network-Centric Integrated Battlefield Picture: Toward Network-Centric Warfare for Commanders: Network-centric warfare - key to dominating the future digital battlefield - depends on a distributed automated information system AIS able to give commanders the right data at the right time. This paper describes a layered architecture for a distributed AIS and a proof-of-principle prototype system demonstrating a network-centric integrated battlefield...; Tags: Network, Northrop Grumman Corp., Architecture, Hardware Upgrade, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2004-10-26
Use of Knowledge Management Techniques to Improve Network Engineering Capabilities: Business requirements, e-government initiatives, and recent legislation such as the Clinger-Cohen Act are all driving federal agencies to standardize and consolidate existing telecommunication networks, better control networking costs, and deploy more advanced network services. Under development by Northrop Grumman Information Technology, the Network Enterprise Engineering Toolkit NEET is designed to...; Tags: Network, Knowledge, Northrop Grumman Corp., Knowledge Management, E-government, Networking, Government; White papers 2004-09-28
Verifiable Modeling Techniques Using a Colored Petri Net Graphical Language: Despite nearly universal acceptance by the software industry as the modeling language of choice for designing complex systems, the Unified Modeling Language?nUML cannot perform formal model verification. Adding executable semantics to UML provides the formalisms required for automated verification. This paper presents a design methodology that extends UML by verifying...; Tags: Software, Northrop Grumman Corp., Modeling, Research & Development, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2004-09-28
Advanced Antenna Technology for a Broadband Ka-Band Communication Satellite: TRW's Gen*Star family of precision high-gain satellite antennas offers the expanding coverage required in the Ka-band market. Providing superior performance, flexibility, and capacity, along with a full-Earth FOV, the Gen*Star antenna is the clear choice for high-capacity applications. Performance results of the protoflight model exceed those previously shown for other...; Tags: Broadband, Northrop Grumman Corp., Satellite, TRW, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2004-09-22
Importance of an Open System Architecture in the Semiconductor Industry: The semiconductor industry has historically been an extremely dynamic, high-growth industry, with new device technologies being brought to market every day. That environment has prompted the rapid emergence and maturation of many application-specific processing tools and software solutions to meet manufacturing and time-to-market requirements. This paper describes the underlying architecture...; Tags: System Architecture, Northrop Grumman Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Semiconductors, Hardware; White papers 2004-09-22
Modernized Integrated Data Base: Migration to a Three-Tier Software Architecture for DII COE: The U.S. Department of Defense has adopted the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment DII COE architecture to expedite communication between services and programs. New development programs and legacy systems already fielded must be made interoperable with DII COE. This paper reviews a successful redesign of the legacy Modernized Integrated...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Migration, U.S. Department Of Defense, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware; White papers 2004-09-22
Design and Implementation of a Secure, Remote PKI Key Management System: The faith placed in existing smart card/hardware token technology is a chimera. For today's widely implemented techniques for remote rekeying to be truly secure, they must take place only on trusted workstations. This paper demonstrates how even simple attacks against the untrusted workstation can compromise the cryptographic keys, thereby negating...; Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., PKI, Workstations, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2004-09-22

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