October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and on this first episode of the Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman Cyber & Intelligence Mission Solutions, Matt Jorgenson talks to Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian about what cyber security is and why it matters.
Doug Dreyer, the executive vice president for business development at Parsons, discusses the company’s role on Northrop Grumman’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent team to modernize the US Air Force’s fleet of Minuteman III nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as infrastructure including silos, alert facilities and crew facilities — which Parsons originally built — with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Air Force Association’s Air Space Cyber 2019 conference and tradeshow outside Washington, DC. Our coverage with L3 Harris and Leonardo DRS.
Brian Chappel, the sector vice president and general manager for autonomous systems at Northrop Grumman Aeronautics, discusses the market and the outlook for the new Firebird optionally manned aircraft the company developed for commercial and military applications with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.
Camille Grand, NATO’s assistant secretary general for defense investment, discusses Europe’s new fighter programs, the Alliance Ground Surveillance program, upgrading and replacing Boeing E-3 Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft, improving cyber security, a look ahead at upcoming ministerial and armaments director meetings and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at NATO’s new headquarters building in Brussels.
Curtis Pearson, director of strategic programs at Northrop Grumman, discusses next generation jammers on EA-18G Growler, development and rapid implementation with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s recent 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Dan Verwiel, the vice president and general manager of the integrated air and missile defense division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems, discusses the company’s missile defense portfolio, the recent successful multi-salvo national missile defense test, layered defenses and countering hypersonic threats with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Association of the United States Army’s 2019 Global Force Symposium and Exhibition in Huntsville, Ala., where our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Capt. Todd Leavitt, USN Ret., vice president for maritime systems at Northrop Grumman Misssion Systems, discusses the company’s 100 year heritage of cooperation with the US Navy on electronic navigation — starting with Elmer Sperry — shipboard power and US-UK partnership aboard USS Winston S. Churchill with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner for the event and our coverage is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.