Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is one of the largest U.S. defense contractors — formed through the 1994 merger of Northrop Corporation and Grumman Corporation, with subsequent acquisitions including TRW and Litton Industries — and in exopolitics and secret space program research identified alongside Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and DARPA as a key corporate holder of classified reverse engineering programs derived from recovered NHI craft, with David Grusch specifically identifying unnamed "companies" (consistent with Northrop's profile) as current custodians of crash-retrieved non-human materials.
B-2 Spirit and stealth connection
Northrop developed the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber — one of the most classified conventional aircraft programs in U.S. history — and its predecessor the B-1B Lancer. In exopolitics research, the B-2's extreme classified status, unusual flying-wing shape consistent with observed UAP disc/wing configurations, and its development at Northrop's Palmdale (Antelope Valley) facility proximity to both Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and Edwards Air Force Base places it within the suspected reverse-engineering complex. Ben Rich of Lockheed's Skunk Works referenced "unconventional fuels" research shared across the major contractors. Researcher Jeremy Rys identified a classified Site Four facility at the Palmdale Plant 42 complex — where the B-2 was manufactured — as a second classified site bearing the same designation as S-4 near Area 51, suggesting a connected network of reverse-engineering facilities under the Northrop umbrella.
Corporate custodianship of recovered materials
Steven Greer identified Northrop Grumman by name as one of a consortium of corporations — alongside Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, and EG&G — that he described as institutional custodians of exotic propulsion and energy technology derived from NHI sources, holding programs in a compartmented structure with "enormous technology centered mainly in the corporate world." Greer noted a personal family connection: his uncle had a full career at Northrop Grumman and helped design the lunar module that landed on the Moon, illustrating the depth of the company's involvement in the most sensitive NASA and defense programs of the 20th century.
At the 2001 Disclosure Project press conference, Steven Greer stated that the classified alien reproduction vehicle programs were being manufactured by a consortium that included Northrop — vehicles with anti-gravity and alleged zero-point energy propulsion systems with superluminal capacity: "They are being manufactured by a consortium of companies that include Lockheed Martin, Northrop, SAIC, and other corporations." Brigadier General Stephen Lovekin, in testimony preserved by the Disclosure Project, stated that by the late Eisenhower years Eisenhower had "lost control" of the classified NHI programs, which had been transferred into the military-industrial complex — with Northrop among the named companies that had assumed custodianship.
Lenval Logan — a retired USAF master sergeant who served on the UAP Task Force — described the corporate retrieval apparatus as specifically driven by companies like Lockheed and Northrop treating NHI-derived technology as "very high value target kind of stuff," with patents derived from classified program discoveries later commercialized through the civilian market.
Advanced Concepts
Northrop's advanced concepts division and the former TRW Advanced Systems division (acquired 2002) have been identified by researchers as institutional homes for exotic propulsion research, including work on electromagnetic pulse technology and directed alleged energy weapons with possible NHI-technology derivation. TRW's involvement in satellite surveillance systems provided additional intelligence community integration.