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Northrop Grumman Corporation provides products, services, and solutions in information and services, aerospace, electronics, and shipbuilding to the military, government, and commercial customers in the United States. Information and Services business provides command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support to the various branches of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community; supports the Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program, the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System, the Missile Defense Integration Operations Center, and the Kinetic Energy Interceptors program; and provides IT systems, services, and solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community, federal civilian agencies, state and local agencies, commercial customers, the DoD, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Unified Combatant Commands. It also offers infrastructure management and maintenance, training and preparedness, and logistics and life cycle management services. Aerospace business designs, develops, produces, and supports integrated systems and subsystems in the areas of battle space awareness, command and control systems, integrated combat systems, and airborne ground surveillance; and develops various systems in the areas of space, defense, and electronics technology primarily for the U.S. Government. Electronics business develops, produces, integrates, and supports sensors, intelligence processing, and navigation systems; and power, power control, and ship control systems for commercial and naval ships, as well as performs as a prime contractor and integrating multiple subsystems. Ships business designs, builds, and refuels nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, surface combatants, and nuclear-powered submarines. It also provides after-market services; and produces double-hulled crude oil tankers. The company was founded in 1939 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Analysts'
Recommendation: | Buy | | 30 Days Ago: | Buy |
| | Analysts' Target: | $91 | Analysts' Estimate: $1.41
| Analysts' Targets | | Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. | $95 | | Outperform | Monday, March 03, 2008
| | Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & C | $84 | | Sell | Wednesday, January 23, 2008
| | Lehman Brothers | $89 | | Equalweight | Friday, January 11, 2008
| | Credit Suisse | $95 | | Hold | | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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$65.73 (07/13/08)
