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

  • 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

  • Batteries

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

  • Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

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

  • 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

  • Gaskets
  • Graphite and Carbon Black
  • Ground Support Equipment/Base O&M Support Missiles
  • Guidance, Navigation and Control Components

H

  • Hardware
  • Heat Treatment
  • Heaters

I

  • Instrumentation
  • Insulators

L

  • Laser Components
  • Launch-related Hardware
  • Liquid Polymer and  Aluminum Powder

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

  • Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
  • Nozzle/Exit Cones/Blast Tubes

O

  • Office Supplies
  • Ordnance
  • O-Rings and Initiators/Insulation
  • O-Rings, Seals and Gaskets
  • Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing

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

  • Relays
  • Resistors
  • RF and Microwave Components
  • RF Microwave assemblies
  • RF/Command & Data Handling Components
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rubber Parts/Processing

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

  • 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

  • Wire and Cable Assemblies and Transducers
  • Wire/Wire Harness Assemblies

X

  • X-Ray Film