We are reviewing President Joe Biden's fiscal 2025 defense budget request, released March 11, which is limited by a compromise struck in mid-2023 to avoid government shutdown at only a 1% increase over the 2024 sum.
Northrop Grumman has won the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent and B-21 bomber programs, both of which should drive material top-line growth over the next few decades.
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Northrop Grumman depends on U.S. military funding for its sales, which is an inherently political and thus uncertain process.
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Northrop Grumman is a diversified defense contractor providing aeronautics, defense, and space systems. The company’s aerospace segment creates the fuselage for the massive F-35 program and produces autonomous and piloted aircraft such as Global Hawk drones and the new B-21 bomber. Defense systems makes artillery and missile ammunition and guidance systems, missile defense systems, and conducts maintenance and upgrades on numerous military aircraft. Mission systems creates and integrates a variety of radar, navigation, and communication systems for avionics, weapons control, and countermeasures on a range of platforms from helicopters to destroyers. Finally, space systems produces satellites, sensors, space structures, and manufactures long-range missiles and rocket motors.