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  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century.
The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1[?], a biplane with retractable landing gear[?].
Grumman's first jet plane, the F9F Panther[?], became operational in 1949, but the company's big successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder[?] and in the 1970s with the F-14 Tomcat.
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 Northrop Grumman - Alexis Livanos
Dr. Alexis Livanos is corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman's Space Technology sector.
Prior to joining Northrop Grumman in 2003, Livanos served as executive vice president of Boeing Satellite Systems where he was responsible for technology, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, and strategic relationships and ventures.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
www.northropgrumman.com /leadership/bios/alexis_livanos.html   (0 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Founded in 1929 by Leroy Grumman with Jake Swirbul and William Schwendler, its independent existence ended in a 1994 merger with the Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.
Grumman's first jet plane, the F9F Panther, became operational in 1949, but the company's big postwar successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder and in the 1970s with the F-14 Tomcat.
Grumman were also the chief contractor on the Apollo Lunar Module that landed men on the moon.
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 Grumman
Grumman Corporation: From Beginnings Through World War II The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation of Bethpage, New York, was one of the most important builders of military aircraft in the 20th century.
Grumman had a close relationship with the Navy, but by the mid 1930s, company officials were worried about the firm's sole reliance on military business and decided to also design planes for the commercial market.
Grumman's first major warplane was the innovative F4F Wildcat, a single-seat, single-engine, carrier-based strike fighter equipped with a unique Grumman invention called "sto-wings, which allowed a plane's wings to fold in half for easy storage on cramped aircraft carriers.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Grumman-early/Aero38.htm   (1455 words)

  
 Grumman: Post World War II to 1994
The Grumman Corporation of Bethpage, New York, has been one of the handful of military aircraft builders since the 1940s.
Grumman was the Navy's prime aircraft manufacturer in the early 1940s and most of its business came from the Navy.
One corporation, McDonnell, was particularly interested in securing a navy contract for an all-purpose fighter.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Grumman-II/Aero39.htm   (1707 words)

  
 DAVID THOMPSON, APPELLANT, v. GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION, RESPONDENT.
Grumman also had the right to hire, "on a direct basis" and without ATS's consent, ATS employees assigned to work at Grumman, subject to limitations not pertinent here.
Grumman asserted as an affirmative defense in its Answer and, after discovery, in its motion for summary judgment, that Thompson was its special employee and that his acceptance of workers' compensation benefits barred this action.
Supreme Court denied Grumman's motion and granted Thompson's cross-motion, finding as a matter of law that Thompson was an employee of ATS only and was not a special employee of Grumman.
www.law.cornell.edu /ny/ctap/078_0553.htm   (1563 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - HOOKER CHEMICAL/RUCO POLYMER, HICKSVILLE, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK
In 1992, Grumman Corporation submitted an RI to the NYS DEC. The field work for the RI was conducted in 1991.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation is installing a system of groundwater monitoring wells for use as a warning system for the Bethpage Water District Supply Plants 4 and 5.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation's Bethpage manufacturing facility, which is a very large industrial facility, is on the eastern border of the Hooker/Ruco Polymer site.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/pha/hooker/hoo_p1.html   (2795 words)

  
 DefenseLink: Contracts for Monday, December 23, 1996
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Melbourne, Fla., was awarded on December 20, a $232,060,500 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to definitize advance procurement for Lot IV (aircraft P7 and P8) production of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) and authorized the Lot IV full production effort..
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $22,750,000 cost-plus- incentive-fee contract for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) and integration of a Tactical Aircraft Moving Map Capability (TAMMAC) avionics system that consists of 32 EMD systems made up of a Digital Map System and an Advanced Memory Unit.
Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corporation, Lockheed Martin Training and Technical Services, Chesapeake, Va., is being awarded a $12,077,460 modification to previously awarded contract N61339-96-C-0073 for life cycle contractor support for the tactical engagement simulation training devices currently fielded by all United States' services and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
www.defenselink.mil /Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3418   (2453 words)

  
 About the F-14 Tomcat Figher by Grumman for the US Navy
Grumman, the associate contractor on the F-1ll B, pushed forward a design for a superior carrier-based fighter that the company already had on the stocks.
Early in 1969, Grumman received the go-ahead and the prototype F- 14A Tomcat first flew on 21 December 1970.
Grumman sold 80 simplified F- I 4As to Iran just before the Islamic revolution in that country.
www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Grumman-F14/tomcat_info/tomcat_info.htm   (1472 words)

  
 Grumman Gets Big NASA Job - New York Times
LEAD: NASA said today that it had selected the Grumman Aerospace Corporation of Bethpage, L.I., for its biggest space station award to date - a contract worth up to $1.25 billion over the next 11 years.
NASA said today that it had selected the Grumman Aerospace Corporation of Bethpage, L.I., for its biggest space station award to date - a contract worth up to $1.25 billion over the next 11 years.
Grumman's proposed cost is $841 million, with an option for additional support of $406 million.
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 HOME OF M.A.T.S. - The most comprehensive Grumman F-14 Reference Work - by Torsten Anft!
This group of intrepid people is known as the East End Aircraft Long Island Corporation, a not-for-profit 501C3 qualified organization, and their mission is to preserve and maintain the legacy of such aircraft as the F-14 Tomcat, and spacecraft such as the Lunar Module.
Since the merger of the Grumman Corporation with Northrop in 1994, the property at Calverton has been turned over to the Town of Riverhead by the US Navy.
Grumman realized that a fighter with both an enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear would out perform many of its contemporaries.
www.topedge.com /panels/aircraft/sites/mats/grumman-gmp.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Northrop Grumman - Aerospace
Northrop Grumman is a premier developer, integrator, producer and supporter of manned and unmanned aircraft, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems critical to maintaining the nation’s security and leadership in science and technology.
Northrop Grumman is developing a preliminary design of the experimental Oblique Flying Wing, the first-ever supersonic flying wing aircraft that can vary the sweep of its wing for the most efficient performance.
Northrop Grumman is developing versions of its Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Navy and the Army.
www.northropgrumman.com /about_us/aerospace.html   (0 words)

  
 Grumman F4F
Still having confidence in their basic design, Grumman engineers reworked the F4F and came up with a greatly improved model superior in performance to the Brewster F2A.
A new Grumman fighter, the F6F Hellcat, loomed as the replacement, but the Navy still needed the Wildcat to equip the small escort carriers, for which it was well suited in size and weight.
In 1974 the Grumman Aerospace Corporation accepted the task of restoring the Wildcat for exhibit in the new National Air and Space Museum.
www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/grumman_f4f.htm   (751 words)

  
 Grumman Memorial Park
The Grumman Logos are registered trademarks of Northrop Grumman and are licensed to East End Aircraft.
The Grumman Memorial Park and the Grumman Memorial Park and Museum are not affiliated with or sanctioned in any manner by Grumman Corporation or of Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Grumman Memorial Park is a not for profit volunteer group composed of retired Grumman employees, civic leaders and concerned citizens preserving the Grumman legacy in the United States at the site of the former Grumman final assembly and flight test facility in Calverton New York.
www.grummanpark.org   (0 words)

  
 Grumman Corporation (Now Northrop Grumman Corporation)
Elected president of Grumman Aerospace Corporation in 1974, he held this post until becoming president of the parent organization, the Grumman Corporation, in 1985.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop.
A merger between Northrop Grumman and competitor Lockheed Martin was not approved by the U.S. government in 1998, slowing the consolidation of the defense industry.
www.scripophily.net /grconewyo.html   (2236 words)

  
 AWH: Apollo-XIII Towing Bill
It was from the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, builder of the lunar module, the moon-landing craft that turned unexpectedly into a "lifeboat" on the Apollo 13 flight.
He did it during intervals in a test he was running at Grumman's Bethpage, L.I. plant in an exact duplicate of the Apollo 13 LM.
Sam did get it typed up on a Grumman Purchase Request which we held until Apollo 13 crew were safe on board the carrier.
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 Grumman Test Pilots
Bob left Grumman in 1981 and joined the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in Savannah, Georgia as Director of Flight Operations.
In 1969 he was elected to the board of directors of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, and in 1972 became senior Vice President of GAC.
Donald Lee Evans was born in 1927 and raised on a ranch in Montana.
www.grummanpark.org /grumman_test_pilots.htm   (2842 words)

  
 ch11-6
Entering the Navy was the Grumman F-14A Tomcat, while the McDonnell F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon became part of the USAF inventory.
In January 1969 the Grumman Aerospace Corporation was named the winner in a design competition for development of a Navy fighter to fill the role for which the F-111 was rejected.
At the present time, the British Aerospace Harrier is used by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the navies of Spain and India.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch11-6.htm   (5171 words)

  
 Northrop Grumman Corporation - Defining the Future
On August 1, the U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Delivers SBIRS GEO-1 Payload to Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman Uses Extensive Knowledge of 'Sense-and-Avoid' Technologies for Navy BAMS Solution
www.northropgrumman.com   (88 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - HOOKER CHEMICAL/RUCO POLYMER, HICKSVILLE, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK
Data are needed to describe the relative contribution of many sources of contamination, including Grumman Aerospace and Hooker/Ruco Polymer, and the depth of contamination.
The TRI data show that the Grumman Aerospace Corporation has the greatest quantity of air emissions.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation as part of its response to contamination at its facility is installing groundwater monitoring wells between Bethpage Water District supply wells and the Grumman Aerospace and Hooker/Ruco sites.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /hac/PHA/hooker/hoo_p3.html   (1395 words)

  
 Northrop Grumman > NGST > Capabilities > Missile Defense > Airborne Laser (ABL)
Northrop Grumman is a member of a team selected by the U.S. Air Force to develop and demonstrate a revolutionary new system-Airborne Laser (ABL).
Northrop Grumman is designing and developing the system's Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) and the Beacon Illuminator Laser (BILL).
Northrop Grumman produced the world's first high energy chemical laser and the nation's only megawatt class chemical lasers, MIRACL and Alpha.
www.st.northropgrumman.com /capabilities/missile_defense/abl.html   (305 words)

  
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Skurla was elected a vice president by the board of directors of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in February 1970 before returning to Bethpage, N.Y. as director of product engineering for all aircraft and spacecraft programs.
Skurla was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Grumman Aerospace Corporation on January 1, 1976.
Skurla was elected president of the parent company, Grumman Corporation, on February 14, 1985, until he retired from Grumman Corporation on July 31, 1986.
members.fortunecity.com /w4jmx/george_sk_obit.htm   (545 words)

  
 Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Establishes Corporate Procurement Function; Names Mary Simmerman Vice President
Simmerman joined Northrop Grumman in 2003 as vice president of materiel at the company's Integrated Systems sector where she was responsible for domestic and international procurement and subcontract management.
She is a representative of Northrop Grumman on the Aerospace Industries Association Supplier Management Executive Council, and was a supply-chain management advisor to the Conference Board from 2000-2002
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense company headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Northrop Grumman provides a broad array of technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in systems integration, defense electronics, information technology, advanced aircraft, shipbuilding, and space technology.
www.primenewswire.com /newsroom/?d=79209   (437 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "The Aerospace Corporation": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Northrop Grumman - Our Heritage
This section of the Northrop Grumman Corporation Web site represents the successful integration of nearly 20 marquee companies into an enterprise that covers the entire battlespace spectrum, from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.
The first step was to acquire Grumman Corporation in 1994.
Grumman introduces the F6F Hellcat; Hellcat pilots account for 55 percent of all enemy aircraft destroyed by the Navy and Marines in World War II The Grumman F9F Panther jet prototype makes its first flight
www.northropgrumman.com /heritage   (0 words)

  
 Northrop Grumman - OpenLine and the OpenLine Process
The Northrop Grumman Corporate Office of Ethics and Business Conduct provides a nationwide 800 number for anyone who would like to seek guidance on an ethics or compliance issue or concern or would like to report a violation.
OpenLine callers may identify themselves openly, identify themselves but ask that the OpenLine keep their identity confidential except as required for action by the Law Department or as authorized by the caller, or they may remain anonymous.
The Corporate Ethics and Business Conduct Office, with reporting requirements to the Compliance, Public Issues and Policy Committee of the Board of Directors, is responsible for the Northrop Grumman ethics program.
www.grumman.com /ethics/openline.html   (263 words)

  
 collectSPACE - models - "Magnificent Creation: Repairing and Restoring the Lunar Module Model"
Models also graced the desks of Grumman staff; at one time they were offered for $29.95 in the employee shops.
It's suspected that when the estates of Grumman, NASA and other Apollo program personnel are exhausted, there will be few LM models to be found that are not already in the hands of museums and collectors.
Above all, thanks to all the Grumman guys and gals I have come in contact with over the years who have been so wonderful to share their stories.
www.collectspace.com /resources/models_grumman_lem.html   (2247 words)

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