The Quick Chip

1,000 times faster than the chips in your cell phone, microscopic in size and enabling high speed secure communications for DoD missions. This was the ask Bill Deal took on, and it resulted in so much more: a super technology, housed in a tiny microchip, made by the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC), and it’s called the Terahertz (THz) technology.

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Civil and Commercial Space

Earthrise above the Moon

Northrop Grumman's depth and breadth of mission experience in developing leading-edge space technologies allows us to play vital roles in the quest to answer compelling questions about the origins of our universe, to explore beyond our own planet, and pioneer new technologies.

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Modernizing Defense Technology

employee working in defense technology manufacturing facility

Northrop Grumman’s innovative technologies are at the forefront of mission systems modernization, delivering generational advances in electronic warfare, electro-optical/infrared systems, AESA radars, resilient networking, microelectronics and assured navigation.

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Microelectronics Leadership

A Silicon Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) going through flat alignment prior to being processed.

We ensure America leads the world in military strength and innovation with our microelectronics. Through an end-to-end process – all on U.S. soil – we design, manufacture, assemble and package millions of microelectronics with unparalleled precision, ensuring our supply chain is protected and sustainable to strengthen our nation’s defense infrastructure.

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From Mops to Microelectronics

Paul Torres steps on and off the blue sticky floor outside a cleanroom, ready to start his engineering shift at the micro-line in Apopka, Florida. It’s a space where he now works on cutting-edge technology for the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center, but it’s also where his career at Northrop Grumman began — not long ago, he was installing that same sticky floor as part of the janitorial staff.

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