What We Buy
Overview
Northrop Grumman purchases a wide variety of products and services to support our program objectives. An A to Z list of commodities that we procure from our supply base is shown below. Please contact a member of the Global Supplier Diversity Programs team for more information about potential subcontracting opportunities.
A
A
- Actuators
- Additive Manufacturing
- Adhesives, Sealants and Tapes
- Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Parts & Manufacturing
- Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing
- Antenna Wave Guides
- Architectural and Structural Metal Manufacturing
- Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services
B
B
- Batteries
C
C
- Cable Assemblies
- Cables / Wire
- Cables and Wiring Harnesses
- Calibration and Testing Services
- Carbon Fiber, Carbon Filler and Rubber
- Castings
- Chemicals, Primer, Sealants, Adhesives, Solvents and Epoxy
- Circuit card assemblies
- Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- Components (Batteries; Microcircuits; Relays; Resistors; Switches; Tape and Reel; Transformers)
- Composite Materials – Resins and Prepreg
- Composite Materials/Manufacturing Items/Structures
- Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
- Computer HW
- Computer Parts / Accessories
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services
- Condensers, Plugs, Port and Tubing
- Construction services
- Contract / Contingent labor
- Crystal Oscillators
D
D
- Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
E
E
- Electrical Test Equipment
- Electrical, Electronic and Electromagnetic
- Electro-mechanical assemblies
- Electronic and Mechanical Hardware
- Electronic Components
- Electronic Devices and Instruments
- Electronic Hybrids
- Employment Services
- Energetics and Propellants
- Engineering and Software Development Services
- Epoxy Resins, Epoxy Film and Curing Agents
- Extrusions
F
F
- Fabricated Metal Products
- Fasteners, Screws, Nuts, Rivets, Washer and Bolts
- Films, Foams and Tapes
- Flexible Circuitry
- Forging and Stamping
- Forgings and Casings
- Fuels and Lubricants
G
G
- Gaskets
- Graphite and Carbon Black
- Ground Support Equipment/Base O&M Support Missiles
- Guidance, Navigation and Control Components
H
H
- Hardware
- Heat Treatment
- Heaters
I
I
- Instrumentation
- Insulators
L
L
- Laser Components
- Launch-related Hardware
- Liquid Polymer and Aluminum Powder
M
M
- Machine Shops
- Machined Castings
- Machined Items
- Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
- Maintenance, Repair and Operating Supplies
- Management of Companies and Enterprises
- Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- Mechanical & Propulsion Components
- Mechanical assemblies, machined parts
- Mechanical Hardware (Fasteners, Nuts, Bolts, Springs)
- Metal Fabrication/Welding
- Metal Finishing/Special Processing
- Metal Parts/Machining
- Metal Raw Materials
- Microcircuits
- Moldings
- Motors
N
N
- Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
- Nozzle/Exit Cones/Blast Tubes
O
O
- Office Supplies
- Ordnance
- O-Rings and Initiators/Insulation
- O-Rings, Seals and Gaskets
- Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing
P
P
- Planning & Control and Mission Assurance/Information Assurance
- Plastic Parts/Raw Materials
- Plastics and Laminates
- Power supplies
- Prepreg Material
- Primer
- Printed Circuit Card Assemblies
- Printed Wire Boards/Terminal Boards
- Printed Wiring Boards (PWBs)
- Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies
R
R
- Relays
- Resistors
- RF and Microwave Components
- RF Microwave assemblies
- RF/Command & Data Handling Components
- Rocket Engines
- Rubber Parts/Processing
S
S
- Satellite Telecommunications
- Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing
- Sealants
- Seals
- Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance
- Sensors
- Sheet Metal Fabrication
- Signal Devices
- Silica, Chemicals, Sealants and Adhesives
- Silicone
- Silk Screening and Marking
- Small Hardware
- Software Products / Services
- Software Publishers
- Software Subscription
- Solar Power – Solar Array Assemblies, Solar Cells, Course Sun Sensors
- Solder
- Solvents
- Space Qualified Electronic parts
- Spacecraft Command & Control
- Spacecraft Launch Support and Integration
- Spacecraft Power Subsystem
- Specialized Testing – N-Ray, X-Ray, ELAT, SLE
- Springs, Wire Forming
- Stampings
- Switches
T
T
- Tape and Reel
- Test equipment
- Test Fixture, Equipment and Supplies
- Testing DPA, Electrical Testing High Speed, Specialized Testing
- Thermal Blankets
- Thermal Modeling
- Thrust Vectors, Actuators and Control Systems
- Tooling and Gaging
- Tooling and Machining
- Transformers
- Turned Product
W
W
- Wire and Cable Assemblies and Transducers
- Wire/Wire Harness Assemblies
X
X
- X-Ray Film