Mission Portfolio

Applying intelligent technology… from outer space to cyberspace.

Information Systems brings best-in-class technology and products and advisory services to critical problems of national size and importance. That's what we call applying technology intelligently. The heart of our development and IT business is the science of systems integration where we specialize in integrating large, complex systems, providing end-to-end solutions for their entire lifecycle. For our customers in our advisory services business we develop architectures and breakthrough concepts for solving hard problems, we verify and validate their systems requirements, and we provide support to mission operations.

From rocket science to computer science, our extensive range of technical skills enables us to deliver independent solutions, adapting a wide variety of commercial products and our own proprietary technologies.

Information Systems is a sector of Northrop Grumman with more than 32,000 employees and annual revenue over $10 billion, positioning it well for the needs of its many customers.

Mission Focus

Our focus is on the missions of our customers. For our defense and intelligence customers we develop, deploy and support air & missile defense systems, command, control and network communications systems, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. For our commercial, federal, state and local customers we provide advisory services and all manner of IT expertise, products and services, especially in the areas of wireless systems and emergency response, identify management, and public health. The areas of expertise we apply to each are:

Areas of Expertise

  • Architecture Design
  • C4 Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
  • Command & Control
  • Command & Emergency Operations Centers
  • Communications & Network Engineering
  • Communications & Signal Processing Systems Design & Interpretation
  • Data Warehousing
  • Digitization
  • Electronic Data Interchange
  • Ground Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Information Assurance & Operations
  • Information Security
  • Logistics Planning
  • Measurement
  • Modeling & Simulation
  • Network Management
  • Program Management
  • Signal Intelligence
  • Simulation-Based Training
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering & Integration
  • Systems Requirements Analysis
  • Test & Evaluation
  • Wireless Communications
  • Hyper-spectral analysis
  • LADAR/LIDAR processing
  • SAR processing
  • LPI/LPD communications
  • MASINT in general
  • Astrodynamics
  • Satellite engineering
  • Space systems architectures
  • RFID design and analysis
  • Geospatial Intelligence
  • Geospatial data collection, processing, and exploitation
  • Digital photography, LiDAR, and RADAR sensors
  • Intelligence analysis, training, and field operations
  • Surveying
  • Photogrammetry and mapping
We bring powerful technologies to bear on the critical issues that enable our customers to accomplish their mission, faster and more effectively. Information Systems executes a significant internal research and development (IR&D) program where we make the most of commercially developed technologies and combine them with our proprietary technologies to the benefit of our customer and their missions. The technologies we develop or make the most of include:

Northrop Grumman Information Systems is a leader in Systems Integration.

In today's business environment, government enterprises have a radically growing need for increasingly complex systems to carry out interrelated tasks.

From e-commerce to missile defense, government regulation to business globalization, integrated systems are empowering organizations to fulfill their missions, optimize their technology investments and remain competitive.

Simply put, systems integration is a carefully managed process of combining diverse components to create a smoothly functioning system. In addition to hardware and software, these components include the people, processes and facilities needed to satisfy our clients' requirements. The result is a system that is optimized for its mission.

Systems undergo three phases — architecture, development and sustainment. Information Systems has over 50 years' experience supporting the full lifecycle of systems integration.

Applying its unequalled skills to the full range of theater, tactical and strategic challenges, Information Systems leverages innovation and superior technology to achieve national objectives on critically important defense and civil/federal programs.