# Northrop Grumman: space company profile

> Northrop Grumman: Northrop Grumman, trading as NOC, provides launch vehicles, satellites, and space systems, including the Cygnus cargo spacecraft and solid rocket boosters.

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- Data as of: profile last verified 2026-10-13; quote fetched 2026-10-14 00:46 UTC
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## Profile facts

- Name: Northrop Grumman (legal name NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP /DE/)
- What it does: Northrop Grumman, trading as NOC, provides launch vehicles, satellites, and space systems, including the Cygnus cargo spacecraft and solid rocket boosters. (SpaceNexus analyst note)
- Sector: defense
- Headquarters: Falls Church, Virginia, US
- Founded: 1939
- Employees: 10000+
- Chief executive: Kathy Warden
- Status: active
- Ownership: public
- Publicly traded: yes, NOC on NYSE
- Website: [https://www.northropgrumman.com](https://www.northropgrumman.com) (SpaceNexus profile)
- Profile claimed by the company: no
- Profile last verified: 2026-10-13

## Market data

- Share price: $481.38 (-0.75% over 24 hours)
- Market capitalisation: $68.39B
- Quote: Yahoo Finance, fetched 2026-10-14 00:46 UTC
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## Funding

- Raised privately before listing: Listing date not yet recorded (No figure is given until the listing date is recorded. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.)

No funding round recorded on this profile.

- Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.

## Space Score

- Score 795 of 1000, tier Leader.
- Rank 4 of 93 ranked companies.
- 8 of 9 inputs measured, high confidence, 100% of applicable pillar weight backed by data; measured 2026-10-13 02:10 UTC.
- Scale (35% of this total): 93 of 100
- Government space demand (24% of this total): 82 of 100
- Capital access (15% nominal, dropped): does not apply
- Momentum (18% of this total): 87 of 100; not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
- Flight record (24% of this total): 52 of 100
- Every input, value and percentile: [breakdown](https://spacenexus.us/rankings/space-score-methodology?company=northrop-grumman#breakdown)
- The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
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## Government contracts (latest)

| Award date | Agency | Title | Value (USD) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-05-14 | DoD | SATCOM SPACE VEHICLE | $102.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880726CB001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-05-11 | NASA | HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS AND MISSION ARCHITECTURE STUDIES | $11.4M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC26C0013_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2026-04-29 | DoD | CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT MINIMUM GUARANTEE | $100K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA881926FB022_9700_FA881926DB001_9700) |
| 2025-08-08 | NASA | TEST ARTICLE II. IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $875K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC025CA016_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-07-28 | DoD | DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, AND PRODUCE GLOBAL VARIANTS OF THE PROTECTED TACTICAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SPACE VEHICLES, ASSOCIATED GROUND SYSTEMS AND ANCHOR STATIONS | $7.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA880725FB018_9700_FA880725DB003_9700) |
| 2025-04-24 | NASA | V'GER - IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $190K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC025CA018_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-02-04 | NASA | ADVANCED X-RAY IMAGING SATELLITE (AXIS) PHASE A | $746K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC25CA015_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2025-02-03 | Space Force | Northrop Grumman: DEEP SPACE ADVANCED RADAR CAPABILITY SITE 2 PRODUCTION | $191.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_FA882024CB001_9700_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-12-17 | NASA | EP STUDY. IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $695K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC025CA001_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-09-24 | NASA | HELIOSWARM PROGRAM SUPPORT | $90.1M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80ARC024CA007_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-09-12 | NASA | STABLE: SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES FOR ARCHITECTURE BASELINE | $3.5M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80MSFC24CA014_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-08-21 | NASA | STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE RESPONSE USING INFRARED VERTICALLY-RESOLVED LIGHT EXPLORER (STRIVE) SPACECRAFT AND MISSION OPS PHASE A | $4.0M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC24CA045_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-08-06 | NASA | TEST ARTICLE - IF MORE INFORMATION IS NEEDED, PLEASE CONTACT THE CO DIRECTLY. | $33.6M | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GRC024CA024_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2024-07-15 | NASA | CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE RAPID STUDIES FOR THE MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) PROGRAM. | $984K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80HQTR24CA007_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-) |
| 2023-09-15 | NASA | ATMOSPHERE OBSERVING SYSTEM INCLINED PROPULSIVE EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE SECONDARY PAYLOAD ADAPTER SPACECRAFT ACCOMMODATION STUDY DELIVERY ORDERS | $825K | [USAspending.gov](https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80GSFC23F0095_8000_80GSFC20D0019_8000) |

## Operations

- Open roles on the SpaceNexus jobs board: 78

## Sources

- [SpaceNexus company database](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles): profile facts, with the verification date above
- Each funding round's cited source: SEC filings, company announcements and press reports, linked per round
- Yahoo Finance: share price and market capitalisation
- Federal award records: contract awards

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