NORTHROP CREATES NASA DIVISION TEAM'S COMPETITION IS LOCKHEED MARTIN.Byline: Daily News EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and - Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. said it has created a division for developing and executing the company's space exploration projects with NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . The new Space Exploration Systems organization will be part of the company's Integrated Systems sector, reporting to Scott Seymour Scott Seymour is an American actor. His television credits include guest appearances on The Shield and The O.C. In July 2006, Seymour was cast in the role of Billy Abbott in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless , corporate vice president and president of the Integrated Systems sector. Art Stephenson, a former director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and , has been appointed sector vice president of Space Exploration Systems to lead the new organization. ``Art Stephenson and his team will be dedicated to supporting our NASA space exploration customers and will work closely with our government and industry partners to achieve program goals in a safe and affordable manner,'' said Seymour. A Northrop Grumman-led industry team that includes The Boeing Company is competing with a Lockheed Martin-led team for the right to design and build the crew exploration vehicle
The Crew Exploration Vehicle (or CEV) was the conceptual component of the Vision for Space Exploration that later became known as the Orion spacecraft. , a spacecraft intended to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2012 and back to the moon by 2018. NASA is expected to select a prime contractor by next summer. Doug Young, vice president and program manager for the crew exploration vehicle for the Northrop Grumman-Boeing team, will report to Stephenson under this new organizational structure. Stephenson comes to Integrated Systems from Northrop Grumman's Space Technology sector, where he served as sector vice president of Directed Energy Systems. Stephenson served as director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center from 1998 until 2003. Prior to that, he was president of Oceaneering Technologies, which provides high-tech services and products to NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army and commercial customers. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) STEPHENSON |
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