Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Targeting and Survivability Division The Navigation Division (doing business as Northrop Grumman Systems Corp) manufactures embedded GPS/inertial navigation systems, navigation system repair and sustainment services, and mission-critical electronic components for military aircraft and rotary-wing platforms as a large prime contractor competing in full-and-open procurements with no SBA set-aside designations.

The division operates as a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, the parent aerospace and defense prime, and maintains operational facilities across Woodland Hills (primary hub), Salt Lake City, Newport, and Long Beach. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation competes as a prime on 97% of its recent awards, with embedded navigation system design, production, repair, and engineering forming the core portfolio. Representative work includes a $30.6 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order for LN-100M embedded GPS/inertial navigation systems and engineering support running through October 2029; a $20.4 million Naval Air Systems Command definitive contract for technical refresh mission computers supporting H-1 helicopter upgrades; a $11.1 million Air Force Materiel Command delivery order for INE Supportability Phase I Execution; a $6.7 million Air Force Materiel Command delivery order for Air Launch Cruise Missile inertial navigation element remanufacture; a $6.4 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for quantum sensor transition research; and recurring repair-and-return orders for LN-251, LN-260, and LN-100 series units across the Air Force, Navy, and Army. The division also supports H-1 helicopter upgrades through LINK 16 kits and system configuration sets, sustains the UH-60M Black Hawk program through spares delivery, and supplies mast motion sensors and inertial measurement units to Naval Sea Systems Command.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Navy and Air Force logistics and engineering commands. The top five funding agencies by potential value—Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Robins ($6.02 billion), Naval Air Warfare Center ($1.05 billion), Naval Air Systems Command ($795.5 million), Air Force ($471.7 million), and Naval Supply Systems Command ($364.2 million)—account for 79% of combined potential value across 4,356 total awards. Award volume concentration by count runs even heavier toward Naval Supply Systems Command (1,374 awards), the Navy broadly (1,154 awards), and the Air Force (337 awards). The tension between the two rankings reflects Naval Supply Systems Command placing many small purchase orders and delivery orders alongside larger indefinite delivery vehicles anchored by Robins Air Force Base work.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation maintains four significant indefinite delivery contracts: a $102.4 million single-award IDIQ with Naval Air Systems Command for LINK 16 UH-1Y/AH-1Z kits and spares (two delivery orders issued to date totaling over $100 million, extending through December 2025); a $23.8 million single-award IDIQ with Army Aviation and Missile Command for UH-60M Black Hawk spares extending through September 2027 (one $3.8 million delivery order issued); a $15 million single-award IDIQ with Army Materiel Command Research, Development and Engineering Command for Mission System Flying Test Bed integration services through November 2028; and a $12.2 million single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Supply Systems Command for various navigation system NIINs extending through May 2030. The top five parent vehicles by task order count are Navy IDIQ N0038301G015G (277 task orders, $9.1 million), Navy IDIQ N0038303D004G (223 task orders, $26.4 million), Navy IDIQ N0038396GM128 (177 task orders), Navy Basic Ordering Agreement N0002485G4389 (155 task orders), and Navy IDIQ N0038310G026G (145 task orders, $16.3 million). These vehicles funnel procurement through established Navy and Air Force supply chain relationships, enabling rapid ordering of repair parts, production units, and engineering services.

Activity has grown incrementally over recent years—62 awards in 2022 to 91 in 2025—with 56 awards (combined potential value $234.6 million) completing within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. The vendor's award portfolio spans 924 NAICS codes in navigational system manufacturing, 629 in printed circuit board manufacturing, 249 in electronic assembly, and others across related categories. Primary PSC codes are navigational instruments (726 awards), electrical and electronic assemblies (846 awards), and maintenance/repair/rebuild of communication and detection equipment (205 awards).

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation operates as a subcontractor on a secondary basis, delivering navigation system components and inertial measurement unit support to L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, General Dynamics Land Systems, DRS Sustainment Systems, and other major primes. Named subcontracts include rate gyro and inertial measurement unit work for Raytheon on multiple AMRAAM missile lots and H-60 MTS FLIR programs; F-35 aircraft long-lead inertial measurement units for Lockheed Martin; THAAD missile support services for Lockheed Martin; GEOXO spacecraft SSIRU units for Lockheed Martin and L3Harris; Stryker and Sergeant Stout ground vehicle support for General Dynamics Land Systems; and M-LIDS rate sensor assemblies for DRS Sustainment Systems. On prime delivery, the vendor engages precision manufacturers (Advanced Machining and Tooling LLC, C.B. Kaupp & Sons, a veteran-owned firm), electronic component suppliers (Paramount Machine, Winchester Interconnect Hermetics, Veterans Trading Company—a service-disabled veteran-owned small business), and specialty photonics firms (Lightera LLC, E.S.A.M. Inc.) for fiber optic cables and flex circuits supporting navigation system repair and production. A small share of subcontractor hours appears in SCI reporting (zero percent across prime contracts captured), indicating subcontract work is either below the $150,000 SCI threshold, embedded in prime cost-plus arrangements without separate SCI reporting, or excluded as products and materials rather than services.

SCI data shows minimal service contract activity in the source range: six SCI records (five as prime, one as named subcontractor) across FY2022–FY2025, with zero invoiced revenue reported and 0.2 FTEs in FY2022, declining to zero in later years. This reflects the division's focus on product manufacturing (embedded navigation systems, mission computers, inertial measurement units) and repair services delivered via firm-fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders rather than cost-plus time-and-materials service contracts above the SCI threshold. The division's federal footprint is dominated by goods procurement and production work, not service labor contracting subject to SCI reporting requirements.