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Northrop Grumman has been growing for years, and now that it's basically a giant grab all company it's probably going to stumble competing against more specialized groups, but will overall be big enough to find various niches and stay big. Specifically right now with the B-21 Raider coming up, the company is looking up, and as people start to look more to space it has a good chance of remaining important and perhaps growing bigger.

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NG is one of the largest contractors in the world, with a bunch of mini corporations under it such as Aerospace systems, one of the main branches and producer of the B-2 Spirit among others, which produces aircraft, spacecraft, high energy laser systems, and microelectronics for the US and others.
2015: the USAD awarded NG the contract for the successor to the B-1 and B-52 built by North American Rockwell/International Rockwell and Boeing respectively; this was identified as the B-21 with a contract worth 21.4 billion up to 80 billion.
2018: Northrop Grumman purchased Orbital ATK renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems; this led them to become more invested in the space industry.
B-21 Raider Price:

Unknown exactly right now, but projected to cost $564 million dollars per unit.

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1994 Northrop Aircraft bought Grumman Aerospace to create Northrop Grumman Inc.
1996-2002: NG went on a buying rampage to acquire Westinghouse Electronic Systems (1996), Xetron corp.(1996), Logicon(1997), Teledyne Ryan (1998), Federal Data Corporation, Navia Aviation As, Comptek Research, Inc., and Sterling Software, Inc., Federal Data Corporation(2000), Navia Aviation As(2000), Comptek Research, Inc., Sterling Software, Inc.(2000). Litton Industries (2001), Newport News Shipbuilding(2001), and TRW Inc.(2002).

1987-2000: B-2 Spirit Program builds 21 high tech stealth bombers
1998: A merger between Lockheed Martin was considered, but abandoned after resistance from the Departments of Defense and Justice.

B-2 Spirit Price:

The Program cost $44.7 Billion, but individual units cost $737 million to $2.1 Billion average cost.

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1985: Northrop Corporation reincorporated in Delaware

1989: Northrop developed the YF-23 plane to compete for a fighter plane contract, but was beat out by the YF-22, a.k.a. the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.

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1968-1972: Grumman Corp. assisted in the creation of the Apollo Lunar Modules.
The project cost $2.2 Billion, with an adjusted modern cost of $21.3 Billion

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Starting 1944: Grumman made Aluminum Canoes out of leftover materials that are still being made today.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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1939: Northrop Corporation was formed in California circa 1939 by Jack Northrop.
1939-1945: Grumman Corporation built all US navy aircraft.

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1929:
Grumman Corporation founded on Long Island.