Global Power Made in America: Northrop Grumman Makes it in Alabama

Alabama, home to Rocket City and Redstone Arsenal, is critical to the design and manufacturing of space and missile defense technology. Northrop Grumman and its legacy companies have been making history in Alabama since the 1950s resulting in decades of innovation in the defense industry. The company has more than one million square feet of facility space across Alabama with over 300,000 square feet dedicated to manufacturing and continues to scale production to deliver critical capabilities at speed.

Northrop Grumman's EPIC facility in Madison, Alabama spans 175,500 square feet, providing cutting-edge production for advanced military systems. (Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman)

Here's how Northrop Grumman makes global power in Alabama:

• Driving Economic Growth and University Partnerships Across Alabama: Northrop Grumman has more than 3,000 employees in the state, primarily in the greater Huntsville area. According to a recent study, these jobs support over 14,000 jobs, generating more than $1 billion in economic output for the state. Northrop Grumman's strategic investment in Alabama also includes partnering with universities across the state to create a pipeline from education to employment that keeps Alabama talent in Alabama.

• Missile Defense Innovations: In Huntsville, Northrop Grumman is driving the next era of missile defense and space technology and is instrumental in providing capabilities from ground to space to support the Golden Dome for America initiative. The company utilizes Redstone Arsenal's Missile Assembly Building (MAB) to enhance America's launch and missile defense capabilities. In nearby Cummings Research Park, Northrop Grumman employees support Sentinel, the land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system under development for the U.S. Air Force.

• Delivering Capabilities: Scaling Production for Modern Defense. Across Alabama, Northrop Grumman is focused on high-rate production with a special focus on the manufacturing and integration of the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), the centerpiece of the U.S. Army's air and missile defense modernization strategy as well as key U.S. allies' missile defense capabilities. By seamlessly connecting diverse defense assets, IBCS is instrumental in providing a unified framework for comprehensive missile defense, a capability that can turn concepts like Golden Dome for America into reality.

• EPIC Facility: Expanding Capacity for High-Rate Production Programs. Northrop Grumman's Enhanced Production and Integration Center (EPIC) facility in Madison spans more than 175,500 square feet with 129,000 square feet of flexible production space, about two football fields, enabling the capacity we need to deliver for our customers, with speed. The EPIC facility features the latest in manufacturing technology state-of-the-art additive manufacturing equipment, and laser cutting and engraving equipment. The talented manufacturing team supports the assembly, test, integration, inspection and shipping of advanced command and control capabilities to the U.S. Army and our allies around the globe.

With nearly 100,000 employees and over 30 million square feet of manufacturing space - more than 500 football fields - Northrop Grumman has the capacity, scale, and agility to drive innovation at unprecedented speeds. The company's manufacturing approach isn't just about flawless production - it was developed to accelerate and enhance the entire process from design and development to production and testing. The company has invested in U.S. infrastructure, R&D, its workforce, and supply chain to deliver the national security needs of today and for tomorrow.