Todd Harland White, Chief Architect at Undersea Systems and Consulting Engineer, offers engineering career advice after 44 years at Northrop Grumman.
Engineering Career Advice: Lessons Learned From a 44-Year Career at Northrop Grumman
Champions Among Us
We’ve all heard about them: elite athletes pushing the boundaries of their sports, achieving things most of us have only ever seen on TV. Like all of us, those athletes have a story and, while no two stories are the same, they tend to have some similar [...]Read More...
At the Helm of Aqua
Carl was having a conversation with his 9-year-old grandson, Jeremiah, when he began sharing his love of science and how he turned it into a lifelong career. “As Jeremiah began asking more about climate change, I had one piece of advice: Let science be your guide,” Carl said. At Northrop Grumman, [...]Read More...
Connection at the Racetrack
Living 2,400 miles apart, it’s an unlikely friendship — one is a race car driver, the other a race car photographer, but connections between careers and cars brought them together.
From Cradle to Orbit
Ryan Keller and Ryan Bloodgood were babies when they began their Northrop Grumman journey. In the 1990s, they attended the Launching Pad, the on-site childcare center at the company's Space Park site in Redondo Beach, California. There, they learned to walk and ride bikes just a short walk from where their parents worked on programs vital to national security. Today, both are engineers at Space Park.
Zooming In
Inside Northrop Grumman’s metallography lab in Redondo Beach, California, Engineer Kate Nabours and her colleagues uncover mission-critical details that are imperceptible to most people. Harnessing ultra-powerful microscopes, the close-knit team of technicians and engineers hunts for potential flaws in the microstructures — grain-like patterns visible only when magnified — of metals, alloys and other materials used in engine components, spacecraft and other products.
Got Bots
When engineer Matt Hobbs first saw BB-8 — the ball-shaped droid from "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" — he was impressed by the CGI. It wasn’t until Matt attended a Star Wars fan event and saw a robotic version of BB-8 rolling onstage that he started thinking about how he could engineer something similar.
Engineering Happiness
An event with students from Northrop Grumman’s High School Improvement Program (HIP) held special meaning for Morgan Freeman, an additive manufacturing engineer, and HIP alumnus. Learn about Morgan's journey from HIP student to engineer at Northrop Grumman.
Igniting the Next Generation
Drawing on the inspiration he felt as a kid seeing the Apollo missions, Brian Katz launched the Space Explorers club to teach young students about rocketry. For more than 20 years, the club has sparked curiosity and future engineers.
From Classroom to Radiation Lab
Former astronomy adjunct professor Taylor Fry wanted to use his talents for something big. Now he is a rising physicist in Northrop Grumman’s Radiation Test Operations Laboratory, conducting tests in radiation environments to assess degradation caused by natural space conditions or nuclear weapons.
Meet Arlanda: Defining Possible Through Designing, Testing, and Analyzing
Arlanda is an Electrical Engineer in the Pathways Program, working on a design team that is responsible for designing, testing, and analyzing data of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits.
Finding La Familia
José is a systems engineer with a deep passion for STEM outreach and diversity, equity and inclusion.