Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a for-profit defense contractor subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, operates as a prime contractor on defense and aerospace programs, delivering tactical data link systems, command-and-control software, and mission systems development services to the Department of the Navy and Department of the Air Force. The vendor holds no SBA set-aside designations and competes on full-and-open basis across its prime footprint; sub-work routes through large primes including Lockheed Martin Corporation (dominant), Booz Allen Hamilton, and Science Applications International Corporation.

The vendor's federal footprint tilts heavily naval with secondary Air Force exposure. Among 1,962 total awards (799 prime, 1,163 sub) worth $11.18 billion combined potential value, the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command dominates by award count (1,165 awards, $190.8 million), while the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center anchors most dollars ($9.24 billion across 27 awards). Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (227 awards, $475.3 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (106 awards, $413.1 million), and the Marine Corps (37 awards, $123.8 million) comprise the naval customer concentration. Top customers account for 88% of award count and 96% of combined potential value, signaling tight customer concentration. The vendor holds a $75.6 million single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle with Marine Corps Systems Command running through September 2027, with task orders for software maintenance and technical development in command-and-control, logistics, training, operations, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance systems, performance split between San Diego and Philadelphia. Named parent vehicles include Navy indefinite-delivery contracts N6600109D0077 (281 task orders, $32.8 million), M6785422D2076 (23 task orders, $33.8 million), and Air Force F0460695D0017 (24 task orders).

Recent prime work is heavily TIGER Multi Link tactical data link software—a proprietary system where the vendor is the sole source. Representative awards include a $1.497 million firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Missile Defense Agency for 40 TIGER Multi Link software licenses (April 2026), an $84,934 Naval Information Warfare Systems Command procurement for two TIGER Multi Link software licenses (November 2025), a $6.93 million Electronic Systems Center definitive contract for SPOC MFP CSO work (December 2024), and a $6.334 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Marine Corps delivery order for TSOA development (August 2025). Additional work includes gateway manager, link management, and tactical data link server purchases ranging from $15,461 to $702,370 across Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Missile Defense Agency, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Coast Guard customers.

Award trajectory flattened significantly in 2025–2026 relative to prior years (35 awards in 2025, only 2 in 2026 year-to-date as of April 2026), a possible data-lag artifact of reporting recency but warrant monitoring for pipeline change. Within the next twenty-four months, sixteen awards carrying combined potential value of $661.6 million reach ultimate completion and face recompete risk. By NAICS, aircraft manufacturing dominates (1,117 awards, likely F-35 and related airframe subwork under Lockheed Martin), with engineering services (383 awards) and custom computer programming (37 awards) as secondary categories. By PSC, systems engineering services (168 awards) and equipment maintenance/repair (80 awards) lead.

SCI-reportable service contract activity (a strict subset excluding goods, products, and classified work) shows invoiced revenue of $188.7 million across FY2022–FY2024: $37.8 million in FY2022 (227 FTEs), $105.4 million in FY2023 (288 FTEs), and $45.4 million in FY2024 (134 FTEs). On SCI-reportable prime contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $162.21/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching the 90th percentile at $206.09/hr. The vendor reported zero sub-hours share across SCI-reportable prime contracts, indicating it delivered labor directly rather than through named subcontractors on SCI contracts. The 59% sub-award share of total awards reflects the vendor's role as a subordinate component within larger Lockheed Martin–led and Booz Allen–led programs rather than a builder of its own delivery teams; the vendor operates as a feeder subcontractor on complex defense systems, particularly F-35 Block Four modernization and naval tactical data link programs where Lockheed Martin is the systems integrator.