Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Electronic Systems Division, doing business as Northrop Grumman Systems Corp, is a major aerospace and defense manufacturer of advanced radar, electronic systems, and microelectronic capability solutions operating as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal competitive contracts with no set-asides.

The Electronic Systems Division is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation (parent headquarters Falls Church, Virginia). The division competes as a large prime across the federal government, with 99% of recent awards as prime contractor and 1% as subcontractor. The division specializes in concrete, named capability areas: F-16 and F-35 radar repair and return services (Active Electronically Scanned Array systems); antenna assemblies, wideband receivers, frequency converters, and power supplies for naval platforms; radar signal processing and electronic component manufacturing; foreign military sales radar support across allied operators in Poland, Oman, Iraq, Thailand, Pakistan, Korea, and Morocco; and advanced microelectronic solutions addressing obsolescence and reliability challenges in microelectronics-based defense systems. Recent representative prime work includes a $45.6 million delivery order from PEO Missiles and Space under ATSP V for counter-unmanned aircraft system microelectronics (April 9, 2026), a $231.6 million Other Transaction Agreement from Naval Air Systems Command for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Expeditionary (MUX) Tactical Aircraft effort as a consortia member (December 17, 2025), a $59.98 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Office of the Secretary of Defense contract for the VEYRON program (December 30, 2025), a $24.2 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order for surveillance radar antennas and tactical radar data servers (September 25, 2025), and a $16.997 million Air Force Research Laboratory cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract for Combat Identification Automatic Target Recognition Technology (CATCH) Call 1 (June 15, 2025).

Customer concentration skews heavily toward specialized defense microelectronics and radar acquisition vehicles. The top five customers by potential value account for 84% of combined award dollars: Defense Microelectronics Activity (221 awards, $44.45 billion potential value—nearly all from the ATSP5 IDV), Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson AFB (56 awards, $2.63 billion), Air Force Materiel Command (336 awards, $1.4 billion), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (515 awards, $1.08 billion), and Office of Naval Research (58 awards, $1.01 billion). The rankings by award count versus potential value diverge sharply: DLA Aviation places the second-largest volume of awards (515 orders, mostly small-value component purchases) but ranks fourth in dollar concentration, while DMEA dominates dollars through a single massive IDV. Across all funding agencies, the division serves 88 distinct federal customers.

The division holds position on multiple parent vehicles anchoring its federal work. Advanced Technology Support Program III carries 341 task orders ($1.43 billion combined potential value); Advanced Technology Support Program IV holds 213 task orders ($3.05 billion); a Basic Ordering Agreement (SPE4A116G0005) carries 253 task orders ($147.3 million); and the newly awarded ATSP5 multiple-award IDV from DMEA (December 29, 2035 completion, $25.357 billion ceiling) represents the largest single vehicle in the source data. The division also holds a single-award IDV with Air Force Materiel Command for F-16 AESA radar repair and return services ($303.6 million ceiling through December 8, 2030), a Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Systems Command for Multi Function Active Sensor spares and repairs (August 23, 2030 completion, no stated ceiling), and Other Transaction IDV authority from DARPA for the HEIMDALL Development Phase ($335,000 ceiling). These vehicles enable rapid delivery-order issuance across the defense microelectronics and radar support domains.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years (122 awards in 2022, peaking at 160 in 2023, declining to 153 in 2024 and 124 in 2025), though the source captures only 30 awards through July 2026. The combined potential value across all 5,237 awards in the portfolio stands at $60.37 billion, with $10.67 billion obligated (18% of potential value). Within the next twenty-four months, 178 awards are scheduled to reach ultimate completion, carrying combined potential value of $1.21 billion and therefore presenting a significant recompete cliff.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, the division invoiced $8.6 million in FY2022–FY2024 ($3.4 million in FY2022, $5.1 million in FY2023, $0 in FY2024), representing a subset of federal services activity and a small fraction of total enterprise revenue. The SCI dataset shows roughly 10.5 FTEs delivered in FY2022, 8.7 FTEs in FY2023, and 42.9 FTEs in FY2024, indicating variability in labor intensity or reporting period coverage. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid hourly rates ran around $195/hr at the median, with rates spanning from $47/hr at the tenth percentile to $295/hr at the ninety-first percentile, reflecting a mix of entry-level support and senior technical labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors represented 0% of hours—indicating the division builds its own delivery teams rather than acting as a system integrator on service work.

In subcontractor posture across its broader award footprint, the division names DCS Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, Mantech TSG-2 Joint Venture, and SZY Holdings as primes for which it performs sub work, typically on ground vehicle survivability and protection (GVSP) engineering, unmanned aircraft system logistics support, and accelerator-card procurement. These relationships position Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation as a technical subcontractor to other major prime contractors on specialized engineering and component work rather than as a feeder of commodity supply.