Northrop Grumman Streamlines Business Sectors; Appoints Gloria Flach As COO

(RTTNews) - Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC) announced structural changes that include the streamlining of business sectors from four to three. The company noted that two new sectors will be created by merging elements of its current Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Technical Services sectors.

As a part of this change, Northrop Grumman also announced the appointment of Gloria Flach as chief operating officer. Flach is currently corporate vice president and president of the Electronic Systems sector. These actions will be effective on Jan. 1, 2016.

The company expects these organization and leadership changes not to have a material impact on its 2015 results.

Northrop Grumman said that the new Maryland-based Mission Systems sector will be composed of its existing Electronic Systems sector and the businesses from the current Information Systems sector. Kathy Warden, currently corporate vice president and president of Information Systems, will be corporate vice president and president of Mission Systems.

The company plans to combine services portfolio in the Information Systems sector with the Technical Services sector to form the new Technology Services sector. Chris Jones, currently corporate vice president and president, Technical Services, will lead the new sector.

The military and civil space hardware business in Azusa, California, currently reporting to Electronic Systems, will move to the Aerospace Systems sector and the electronic attack business currently in Aerospace Systems will move to the Mission Systems sector. Tom Vice will continue to lead the Aerospace Systems sector.