Northrop Grumman Corp.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. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. promoted Robert L. Del Boca to sector vice president and general manager of the defensive systems division. Del Boca was previously vice president of infrared countermeasures This article is about missile counter measures. For IRCMonitor, see Wikipedia:IRCMonitor. Infrared countermeasures (IRCM) are devices designed to protect aircraft from infrared homing ("heat seeking") missiles by confusing the missiles' infrared and laser systems. Northrop also promoted David T. Perry to vice president of marine systems division, a business unit of the company's electronic systems sector, and Carl A. Alleyne to vice president of infrastructure and business area support for the electronic systems sector. Perry was previously strategic business unit director for the company's machinery controls and automation business and Alleyne was vice president for components, commercial and overhaul and repair for the navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. division. |
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