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Other "Did You Know" Moments
- Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites designed, built and tested the world's largest composite aircraft for Stratolaunch, a Paul G. Allen company
- Vinnell Corporation built Dodger Stadium, the Grand Coulee Dam and portions of the L.A. freeway system
- In 2005, the United States Postal Service issued a set of commemorative postage stamps depicting 10 classic American aircraft, including the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing
- The Lunar Excursion Module descent engine (LEMDE) for the Apollo missions was developed by TRW
- The New York City Wireless Network, created and operated for the City by Northrop Grumman, serves Public Safety, First Responders and Government Operations
- On December 7, 1941, a Westinghouse SCR-270 radar detected the attack on Pearl Harbor; its warnings went unheeded because of a high-level of uncertainty about the new technology's reliability
- As the youngest aviator in the United States Navy during the Second World War, President George H.W. Bush piloted a TBM Avenger designed by Grumman
- The United States Postal Service mail truck, the Grumman Long Life Vehicle, has been in service since 1987
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates says he got his first big break debugging energy-grid control software for TRW when he was 15
- The Global Hawk, initially developed to support military missions, has proven indispensable to first responders in areas devastated by natural disasters, such as Haiti, Japan and California
