Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Targeting and Survivability Division The Navigation Division (doing business as Northrop Grumman Systems Corp), is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation that manufactures embedded GPS/inertial navigation systems, navigation system repair and sustainment services, and mission-critical electronic components for military platforms as a prime contractor across full-and-open federal procurements — competes without set-aside designations, reflecting its status as a large defense prime.

The division operates from multiple facilities including Woodland Hills, California (primary administrative and manufacturing hub); Salt Lake City, Utah; Newport, Rhode Island; and Long Beach, California, with place of performance distributed across these locations depending on contract scope. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation received 4,349 federal awards over the source period, with 97 percent as a prime contractor and 3 percent as a subcontractor. Combined potential value across all awards totals $11.01 billion, with $4.13 billion obligated (37 percent drawn). Recent activity shows roughly 87 awards in fiscal 2024 and 89 in fiscal 2025, slightly above the five-year average of 80 per year.

The division's core capability portfolio centers on embedded GPS/inertial navigation system (EGI) design, production, repair, and engineering for military aircraft and rotary-wing platforms. Representative recent work includes a $8.4 million Air Force delivery order (June 2025) for EGI LN-251 repair and return at Salt Lake City; a $22.8 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order modification (February 2026) for H-1 helicopter system configuration sets at Woodland Hills under a broader $337.9 million H-1 Upgrades indefinite delivery contract awarded by Naval Air Warfare Center; a $51.9 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order (March 2025) for LINK 16 UH-1Y/AH-1Z A-kits, B-kits, flight test data sets, and spares under a $102.4 million LINK 16 indefinite delivery contract; and a $6.68 million Air Force Materiel Command delivery order (April 2024) for remanufacture of Air Launch Cruise Missile inertial navigation elements. The division also delivered a $6.43 million Other Transaction Agreement to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (January 2025) for quantum sensor transition prototyping. Additional work includes repair services for mast motion sensors (Naval Sea Systems Command), mission computers and display flight units (Naval Supply Systems Command), inertial measurement units across the LN-200, LN-200E, LN-251, LN-260, and LN-100 series, and engineering support for F/A-18 EGI-M systems and Air Launch Cruise Missile programs.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and naval platforms. The top five funding agencies by award count (73 percent coverage) are Naval Supply Systems Command (1,374 awards, $364 million), the Navy broadly (1,154 awards, $2 million), the Air Force (335 awards, $469.8 million), the Army (147 awards, $34.9 million), and Air Force Materiel Command (147 awards, $349 million). The top customers by combined potential value (79 percent coverage) diverge slightly: Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Robins Air Force Base dominates with 38 awards carrying $6.02 billion in combined potential value; Naval Air Warfare Center follows with 86 awards worth $1.05 billion; Naval Air Systems Command contributes 92 awards worth $787.6 million; the Air Force adds $469.8 million across 335 awards; and Naval Supply Systems Command's 1,374 awards total $364 million. This concentration reflects the division's specialization in embedded navigation systems for rotary-wing and fixed-wing military aviation.

The division holds substantial indefinite delivery contract positions. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count are IDC N0038301G015G (277 task orders, $9.1 million combined value), IDC N0038303D004G (223 task orders, $26.4 million), IDC N0038396GM128 (177 task orders), Basic Ordering Agreement N0002485G4389 (155 task orders), and IDC N0038310G026G (145 task orders, $16.3 million). Northrop Grumman also holds the $337.9 million H-1 system configuration sets indefinite delivery contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (extending through June 2027), the $102.4 million LINK 16 kits and spares indefinite delivery contract with Naval Air Systems Command (through December 2025), a $23.79 million Army Aviation and Missile Command indefinite delivery contract for UH-60M Black Hawk spares (through September 2027), a $15 million Army RDECOM indefinite delivery contract for Mission System Flying Test Bed integration (through November 2028), and a $12.18 million Naval Supply Systems Command Basic Ordering Agreement for navigation system components (through May 2030). Fifty-four awards carrying combined potential value of $296.6 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure.

The division's NAICS and PSC footprint aligns tightly with navigation and electronic systems manufacturing. Top NAICS codes include Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (920 awards), Bare Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing (629 awards), Printed Circuit Assembly Manufacturing (249 awards), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (238 awards), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (190 awards). Top PSC codes are Electrical and Electronic Assemblies, Boards, Cards, and Associated Hardware (846 awards), Navigational Instruments (726 awards), Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Detection and Coherent Radiation Equipment (205 awards), Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components (162 awards), and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Aircraft Components and Accessories (142 awards).

Teaming pattern shows the division operates as a prime on the vast majority of work (97 percent of awards), building delivery teams with named subcontractors rather than serving as a feeder to larger primes. SCI-reportable service contracts are minimal in the dataset (4 total records across FY2022–FY2024, with effectively zero invoiced revenue reported), reflecting the division's heavy reliance on hardware manufacturing, repair, and product delivery rather than labor-hour service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold. Across prime service contracts captured in SCI, the sub-hours share is 0 percent, indicating the division performs work directly without significant subcontractor labor delegation on reportable service engagements.

Named subcontracts show the division sources specialized components from major defense industrial partners. Recurring subcontractors include Raytheon Company (rate gyros, inertial measurement units, obsolescence mitigation on integrated circuits and advanced semiconductors), Lockheed Martin Corporation (aircraft parts and logistics support, F-35 long-lead inertial measurement units, THAAD missile support services), L3Harris Technologies (communications equipment, GEOXO imager components, radio and television broadcasting equipment), Goodrich Corporation (inertial measurement units, rate sensor assemblies), DRS Sustainment Systems and DRS Network & Imaging Systems (dynamically tuned gyroscopes, rate sensors), General Dynamics Land Systems (Stryker and Sergeant Stout ground vehicle components), and smaller suppliers including Metal Master Inc. (precision machining), Kranze Technology Solutions Inc. (woman-owned small business providing digital interoperability systems), and Veterans Trading Company Inc. (service-disabled veteran-owned small business and HUBZone firm providing electronic component manufacturing and flex circuit assemblies). This supply chain reflects the division's role as a systems integrator assembling navigation and mission systems from specialized component suppliers rather than as a full vertical manufacturer.