"Northrop Grumman" news, interviews, and features

News about Northrop Grumman

• US drone completes first in-flight refuelling

  X-47B test leads to future Navy drone program

• DARPA demos lightweight, 94GHz silicon system on a chip

  The all-silicon system on a chip transmitter was built by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.

• U.S. military may have 10 robots per soldier by 2013

  Military expects to soon be using autonomous robots to carry soldiers' gear and scan for enemy combatants

• US Army evaluates self-driving, machine gun-toting robots

  At Fort Benning demonstration, robotics firms show off technology that can carry soldiers' gear and fend off the enemy

• IT morphs as tech and users change

  The CIO position will likely change into one of a technology forecaster and strategist, rather than a technology implementer

• IT departments won't exist in five years

  Generation gap between new technologists and old is widening, say experts at CITE conference

Features about Northrop Grumman

• NEWS FOCUS: Cyber-espionage attacks threaten corporate data in new unrelenting ways

  "Tackling advanced persistent threats means giving up the idea it's possible to protect everything. This is no longer realistic."