Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

A responsible approach to developing, leveraging, and deploying AI-enabled solutions is the cornerstone of our strategy to meet evolving customer needs.

Ethics of AI

At Northrop Grumman, AI has the potential to transform every system, product and service that we produce for our customers, worldwide. We develop advanced capabilities to solve the world’s most challenging problems in space, aeronautics, maritime defense, cyberspace and intelligence. The stakes are high—and our standards for ethics and security are even higher.

The values of our company reflect who we are and how we conduct business.

We do the right thing. We do what we promise. We commit to shared success. We pioneer.

These values guide our innovation and set the stage for our five responsible AI principles to developing and designing our AI systems and solutions:

human-centered: we maintain meaningful human oversight and control over AI systems
secure: we protect and safeguard company, employee, and customer data
accountable: we ensure our AI is thoroughly documented to meet all standards and requirements
robust: we design and test for accuracy while managing and identifying risks to maintain transparency
equitable: we partner across all functions and stakeholders to identify potential bias that may impact quality outcomes to our data

Partnerships

We seek the most creative and innovative technology solutions and we do that, in part, through investments and partnerships. We understand the power and agility of the start-up ecosystem. It is important that in the rapidly changing AI technology space, we invest and build partnerships across the commercial sector and academia to bring the best solutions to the warfighter.

AI in Aerospace

We are building upon our decades long history of leadership in secure processing for our nation’s most trusted systems, to build responsible AI-enabled trusted systems. Northrop Grumman’s leadership in responsible AI goes beyond the technical and considers the legal, policy and social implications. In alignment with our governance policies, and the principles adopted by the Department of Defense, our AI technologies are responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, governable, and auditable and protected against threats.

Using our powerful, proven algorithm development and implementation processes, Northrop Grumman has developed and integrated leading-edge AI solutions into large, complex, end-to-end mission systems that are essential to our national security.

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AI-enabled Solutions

Internet of Military

Things Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) seeks to connect communications nodes, shooters and platforms across all domains and branches of the military. In this environment, cyber-secure, integrated, open architecture communications capabilities are critical.

AI, Space, JADC2, Advanced Battle Management (ABMS), Future Vertical Lift

Northrop Grumman is developing and integrating leading-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions into large, complex, end-to-end mission systems that are essential to our national security.

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Deep Mission Understanding

Northrop Grumman has been using AI for more than 40 years in our operations and products. We understand the mission, and the unique requirements of our customers, and the opportunities that AI will enable on our platforms and products.

Distributed decision making will significantly enhance mission effectiveness and improve warfighter safety by creating a truly network-centric force and ultimately provide decision advantage. We are responding to the age of data-driven warfare by bringing together our expertise in advanced processing in low size, weight and power (SWaP) environments, anti-tamper, cyber security, advanced networking and AI algorithms to enable faster decision making at the tactical edge.