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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has provided grants worth a total of $3,300 to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational initiatives in Los Angeles metropolitan area schools. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) Northrop Grumman awarded 11 individual grants of $300 each to teachers in local elementary, middle and high schools to fund projects that promote...

EDWARDS, Calif., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's has selected L-3 Vertex Aerospace of Madison, Miss., to support the operations of all aircraft assigned to the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base and the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in nearby Palmdale, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The cost-plus-award-fee contract takes effect July 1 following a month-long phase-in. It covers a base period of...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) today announced it has appointed Christine McGlade and Andrew W. Reynolds vice presidents of manufacturing operations and site managers for the company's aircraft integration centers of excellence in St. Augustine, Fla., and Palmdale, Calif., respectively. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) Photos accompanying this release are available at...

FALLS CHURCH, Va., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today it is designating five centers of design and integration excellence in support of its Aerospace Systems sector's manned aircraft, unmanned systems and electronic attack businesses. In addition, the company announced plans to close an Information Systems sector facility in Dominguez Hills, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121024/LA98563LOGO) "Consolidating...

NASA The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. That flight launched the AAA program’s first full year of operations, during which 26 educators from classrooms and science centers across the United States will fly on SOFIA as partners with scientists conducting...

PALMDALE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Australian Air Force's Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Geoff Brown, met Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) executives during a visit to the company's F-35 Lightning II production facility in Palmdale on Nov. 2. As part of his visit, Brown received an update on the F-35 program and observed the first F-35 center fuselage being manufactured at Palmdale for the Royal Australian Air Force as part of the low-rate...

Climate change could have a profound impact on Southern California, as the region could be several degrees warmer by the middle of the century, according to a new UCLA study released on Thursday. The southern part of the state could be three to five degrees warmer in the years 2041 to 2060, though differences between the coast and inland locations and mountainous and desert areas will mean that the heat increase will vary, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday. The study, which...

After an all-night flight from its home base in Palmdale, Calif., a NASA ER-2 high-altitude environmental science aircraft arrived in Keflavik, Iceland late Monday morning to begin a series of flights over the next five weeks that are intended to validate the accuracy of a new laser altimeter named MABEL. The long-winged ER-2, flown by NASA research pilot Tim Williams, departed its base at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility adjacent to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale shortly after 7...

PASADENA, Calif., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Li Schroeder, husband of the California woman who was rescued Monday after her truck slid off the Angeles Forest Highway, reports that his wife is still in critical care, but "on the road to recovery." Hospital officials state that the patient remains in critical, but stable condition. Mr. Schroeder is a professor at California State University, Northridge and his wife teaches for the Palmdale School District. The couple...

PALMDALE, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Norwegian State Secretary for the Ministry of Defence Roger Ingebrigsten met with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) executives Feb. 29 in Palmdale, Calif., where Northrop Grumman produces the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter center fuselage. As part of his visit to the United States for an update on the F-35 program, Ingebrigsten was accompanied by members of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Norwegian air force, Kongsberg Defence &...