Northrop designed the Vanguard architecture to support a shift to a modular approach that reuses the same software and hardware on a range of products spanning airborne, ground and surface platforms.

The U.S. Navy has picked a winner for its hotly contested, unmanned, carrier-based aircraft, but will the losers go away quietly?

Northrop Grumman has revealed the details of a production-ready new radar called Vanguard that its Mission Systems division launched about five years ago.