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Northrop Grumman sells consulting firm in leveraged buy-out

Seems to me...Me thinks the "conflict of interest" thing is an excuse to sell an otherwise unprofitable business unit."Leveraged buyout" is a synonym for "have i got a deal for you...let's trade phony paper money, so i can unload this bad boy"The "buyer" will eventually try to market and "flip"...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Northrop Grumman Corp., consulting

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Northrop Grumman sells consulting firm in leveraged buy-out

Northrop Grumman, one of the largest suppliers to U.S. military, has sold its TASC group to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR and the Atlantic Group for $1.65 billion. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Consulting, Outsourcing, Channel Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-11-09

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

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

Business Process Management: Best Practices of Coors Brewing Co., Deere & Co., and Northrop Grumman Space Technology

Modern organizations must manage an ecosystem with no boundaries, one that is consistently buffeted by globalization, faster cycle time requirements, unknown competitors, and complexity at every turn. Business process management becomes the art of the disciplined, where decisions are made at the front line, closer to the customer. To focus...

Tags: Business Process, Deere & Co., BPM, APQC, Northrop Grumman Corp., Molson Coors Brewing Co., Best Practice, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Globalization, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

White papers

Northrop Grumman Cuts TCO, Gains Agility With Improved Public Key Infrastructure

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems wanted to replace its proprietary Public Key Infrastructure PKI certificate solution with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 PKI. But it didn't want to have to replace its entire Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Active Directory directory service infrastructure immediately. Happily, it doesn't have to. By adding a few...

Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., TCO, Microsoft Corp., PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Network Security, Security, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Hardware

Case studies

Additional Resources

Mac users out in the cold again

Once again, Mac users are left out in the cold on a government database aimed at a heavy-Mac using population, the Washington Post reports. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services -- a central manager of the Grants.gov system -- promised that by November the system...

Tags: Grants.gov, NIH

Blog posts 2006-09-13

School program heads to outer space

An unique new program designed to help educators inspire student interest in technical or scientific careers opened at Florida's Kennedy Space Center this month, reports eSchool News reports. The program, called Weightless Flights of Discovery, from Northrop Grumman Corp. includes hands-on science workshops and the opportunity...

Tags: aircraft

Blog posts 2006-06-29

Defense contractors moving into health IT

Defense contractors are acquiring health IT firms in a clear trend in federal contracting, Washington Technology reports: Northrop Grumman Corp. acquired Integic Corp., a company that specializes in enterprise health and business process management in March 2005. With Integic under its belt, Grumman won a role in the...

Tags: health, Accenture Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-05-15

Health IT is creeping into high gear

Health IT may seem like it's been awfully slow in getting off the ground, but actually a number of initiatives have been laying the groundwork for a program that about to move into high gear. That's what David Brailer, national coordinator for health IT, tells Government Computer News. ...

Tags: health, information technology, David Brailer, standards

Blog posts 2006-04-07