Space Technology is committed to research, workforce development, continuing education to maintain and increase employee capabilities, technology linkages with our customers, and an overall commitment to a balanced, diverse workforce.  Our University Alliance organization develops and maintains strategic university partnerships to strengthen our capabilities by leveraging people, technology, processes and customer relations.

Industrial Affiliates Program builds relationships with selected universities that hold a particular interest regarding students, faculty, facilities, research, and events.  We strive for high leverage in terms of recruitment and technology. 

Excellence in Teaching Awards to acknowledge outstanding instructors, selected by their peers, who influence curriculum and research into technologies that develop our future employees and contribute to our programs.

Research Opportunities that provide faculty and graduate students with work on exciting technologies and difficult problems of national importance.  Support for these activities comes from internal funding as well as joint research projects sponsored by the U.S. government.  Our Technology Development organization oversees these projects.

In partnership with our customers, we work with key universities to further technology and influence curriculum to address future and current workforce and technology challenges.  Some examples are:

• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo:  Working with the Aerospace Engineering Department on a small satellite lab and curriculum  for an MS degree for the Air Force at Vandenberg Air Force Base and other sites worldwide.
• Alabama A&M:  At this Historically Black College and University, we sponsor propulsion projects in collaboration with NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.
• Air Force Academy:  Space Technology is sponsoring student laboratories with propulsion and small satellite projects.
• Cal Tech, MIT, and Stanford:  Space Technology has been part of a collaborative effort for space systems policy and architecture sponsored by the Government.

The Mentor-Protégé Program assists small disadvantaged business concerns by enhancing their capabilities and increasing participation in government and commercial contracts. We work with Space Technology?s Socio-Economic Business Program to continue the award winning success of our Mentor-Protégé Program for Small Businesses. 

Minority Engineering Program, which provides our active participation in the growth and development of our diverse workforce.   Our internal diversity network groups partner with on-campus chapters of professional organizations to strengthen relationships that lead to increasing numbers of minorities and women prospering in engineering degree programs.   

Northrop Grumman Matching Gifts to Education Program, which supports higher education by matching employee gifts to qualified educational institutions.

For more information, contact University Alliances.