When every minute counts, warfighters need instant access to the best data and tools to plan, collaborate and execute missions at the touch of a button. Long before a fighter jet takes flight, a destroyer leaves port, or a heavy-lift helicopter takes off, mission planners rely on critical data to help ensure success.
Northrop Grumman is developing the latest mission planning technologies that serve as the connective tissue, linking planners with platforms, crews and decision-makers. These solutions span the full spectrum of mission planning capabilities, supporting critical flight operations for airborne platforms across the services. These systems crunch data, identify risks, simulate various scenarios, update strategies, assign assets, plan routes and much more.
Over the past year, Northrop Grumman has been awarded more than $180 million in Defense Department contracts to develop advanced mission planning technologies. These programs – which include customers such as the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps – use data analysis, automation, digital technologies and information sharing to deliver next-generation systems that help warfighters access crucial data to plan, assess and execute missions.
Mission Planning Whenever, Wherever It's Needed
• Combat Air Force Global Strike Mission Planning System: Under this Air Force Life Cycle Management Center program – valued at approximately $114 million – Northrop Grumman supplies modernized mission planning capabilities to U.S. airmen. Our next-gen software provides users with full-spectrum mission planning capabilities that incorporate near real-time threat and situational awareness data.
• Collaborative Mission Planning Continuum Integration and SAFe Support: Under this $55 million U.S. Navy contract, Northrop Grumman continues as the lead integrator for the Navy in providing Naval Aviators with a replacement of the legacy Joint Mission Planning System – Maritime’s mission planning system. This program provides a fully integrated collaborative mission planning environment that facilitates the flow of information to and from mission planners in shipboard or shore-based environments to provide air wing-level, expeditionary unit-level and squadron-level mission planning solutions.
• CH-53 King Stallion’s Next-Gen Mission Planning System: Northrop Grumman is developing a Next-Gen Mission Planning System for the Marine Corps’ CH-53 King Stallion under a nearly $15 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command. The system offers real-time collaboration across platforms and digital interoperability advancements to support mission planning and operations.
Decades of Disruption
Northrop Grumman’s suite of tools builds on more than 50 years of pioneering experience through programs such as the Joint Mission Planning System and nuclear command and control. These products and programs deliver advanced, resilient and mobile technologies to help ensure every mission is executed safely and effectively. Through deep analysis of data and collaborative ways to share it securely, our systems enable warfighters to prepare for any mission at any time.
“Building on our strong foundation of performance, Northrop Grumman continues to be the premier provider of mission planning systems for the U.S. government,” said Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, command and control & weapons integration, Northrop Grumman. “We’re equipping our customers with modernized mission planning tools, providing our warfighters with enhanced decision-making power to ensure they can make the right decisions at the right time.”