Jeff Grant is the Vice President and General Manager of Northrop Grumman's Space Systems Division. The division is known for high-reliability, innovative technology leadership in space systems and tackling challenging national space programs. It has a history of firsts in space science and exploration dating back to the 1960s and is currently working on programs like the James Webb Space Telescope, missile defense satellites, and protected satellite communications.
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Advances in Space Technology Leading the Next Generation into Space
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Jeff Grant
Vice President and General Manager, Space Systems Division
Florida Tech Alumni-BS Ocean Engineering 1975
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Advances in Space Technology
Leading the Next Generation into Space
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• Known for high-reliability,
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leadership in space systems
• Tackling the Nation’s most
challenging space programs
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Missile Defense
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Legendary innovators make up the foundation of where we came from and have set the path to where we are going.
Northrop Grumman is founded upon some of the great aircrafts of our past – the Flying Wing, B-2, Grumman Hellcat, F-14 Tomcat, Ryan PT-22 Trainer, Ryan Firebee, Pioneer 1, Chandra, Rutan Voyager, SpaceShipOne.
Despite being a huge company, we work to create a culture of innovation where risk and out-of-the-box thinking is encouraged – Internally - Innovation Challenge & Copernicus; through selective SBUs & Relationships Applied Minds & Scaled Composites; and through Academic Involvement and Endowment. NGC is the proud sponsor of the Engineering & Science Student Design Show here at FIT. This years winners are:
The NGAS talent spans across all levels of experience and backgrounds. Some employees came from TRW, Ryan, Grumman and have the intellectual property to share with the newcomers. Newcomers in turn, have their own individual experience and backgrounds to generate new thoughts/ideas – working together to tackle the hard problems.