There's also a $3000+ prize pool! As part of the tour we walked through the composites plant next door. And that means just in this year, well, how many are on a team, then? And on the mens side, youll see North Carolina and Duke so we get our repeat people who consistently do well. [Tony] is an engineer but 50% of his workload is tending to the FabLab. This will be accomplished through informal STEM exposure, formal STEM programming and professional development for teachers. The width of this structure is dictated by the size of the rocket which will launch it into space. Were speaking with Ret. [Raul]s art was slipping away until [Tony Long] caught wind of the story, that is. Extended Reflection Mirror via YouTube video. If you're interested in one of Northrop Grumman's many opportunities, you can go to careers.northropgrumman.com. And weve got hard data that shows that because students participate in this program, they actually are attracted more to STEM careers and education, and career tracks. In addition, we support Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students. Bernard Skoch:Yeah, what a great question Tom. Theres a lot of pressure for success. The user that shouldnt have been on the system six months ago is still on the system. And then weve got automatic software that we developed with the University of Texas at San Antonio, that scores them. We dont know what background attracts people to that or software development, is it an artistic talent, is it a technical talent, is it an analytical talent? Weve only had about a dozen of those since the program began. Air Force Brig. This is another subcontract Northrop Grumman has for Lockheed Martin. Contact jasondenney@gmail.com. But it starts with online training. These firewalls are open, these routers have all the default settings. Bernard Skoch:We have a litany of these people. Our High School Involvement Partnership program pairs high school students with employees to provide mentoring, business-environment exposure and hands-on experience in real-world STEM applications. [Tony] runs the FabLab, and once he put out the word to his colleagues he got a hackathon together to work on solutions for [Raul]. And thats important for the nation. They had about six months to develop a robot which can clear unexploded armaments. We registered all-female teams for free. One thing I should mention is that Iwas not able to take any photographs on the premises. Tom Temin: Well post this interview along with a link to more information at FederalNewsNetwork.com/FederalDrive. Copyright 2022 Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. Tom Temin: Wow. Northrop Grumman Information Systems is seeking a Cyber Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. Interested in sponsoring? This past year, we had nearly 5,000 teams in all 50 States, Canada, overseas locations of Department of Defense schools and other friendly nations to the U.S. Bernard Skoch:Well, youre onto two points, I think, Tom. So does Boeing. When you can count the number of spacecraft in Earth orbit on one hand, what does it matter if one of them stays up there for more than a decade? Oh, and if [Tony] and the FabLab sound familiar, it might be because he played host when our own [Mike Szczys] visited Northrop last year. If this thing breaks we cant go out there and fix it. And were feeding that workforce. Tom Temin: It sounds like a major thing to administer, just having 30,000 students online and competing. And thats a not-real, relegated to the surface of the planet, item. This is an avenue to that buzzword: fail-fast. Its going to the second Lagrangian point. We really like to see hacks that help mankind as a whole, but theres something special about a bunch of strangers coming together to help just one man too. Oh, and the name FabLab apparently came from their mascot, the Fabulous Labrador, who can be seen in the clip wearing a string of pearls. Tom Temin: Bernie, good to have you back. Winners were announced last month. We support computer science teacher professional development and youth programs to inspire the next generation of computer scientists. Vaccinated W&M students can join us in-person at the Swem Library. And we expect to get back to full program participation this coming season. And at its core, thats the purpose of the program. It looks like the FabLab team paid special attention to making everything as smooth and stable as possible, and as a result [Raul] is back to doing what he does best. Mr. Dana Shafie, Chief Cyber Architect in Cyber & Information Services at Northern Grumman and Ms. Cheryl Rice, District Director in the Office of Congresswoman Kathleen Rice were in attendance to congratulate the winners. Northrop Grumman serves as the principal subcontractor forBoeing on this project, so the end of the line isnt quite a fully assembled airplane. Do you find that the Air Force itself is kind of interested in says, hey, Bernie, whats going on? In turn, the teachers receive a yearlong immersion in a host of science, technology and engineering learning opportunities. All rights reserved. At an altitude of 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles), deorbiting these spacecraft simply isnt practical. This includes the integration of capabilities such as command linkages, data flows, situational awareness (SA), and command and control (C2) tools. Diagnosed as a child with muscular dystrophy, [Raul] was getting to the point where the progressive weakening of his muscles was making it difficult to hold up his arm. The robot is remote controlled, with wireless GoPro camerasmounted all around and underneath. The challenges are funded by the $100,000 Northrop Grumman cybersecurity grant that the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences received. Continue reading Northrop Grumman Tests Space Tow Truck . Learning more about what goes into the James Webb Space Telescope projectis worth a lot of your time. Bernard Skoch: Tom, its always a pleasure. All components come in cases that have an individual cutout area for each. Bernard Skoch:Thanks, Tom, its always good to be on Federal News Network. Above you can see a scale model which Northrop built. Gen. Bernie Skoch joined Federal For more than a decade, the Air Force Association and Northrop Grumman have conducted the CyberPatriot national youth cyber defense competition, matching teams of middle and high school students who find and fix cybersecurity flaws. No worries, we'll provide workshops from the most basic coding tutorial to some more exciting tech. Gen. Bernie Skoch is commissioner of the CyberPatriot national youth cyber defense competition. My story above is original but all the photos are stock or provided by Northrop at my request. Safety first! Tom Temin: Sure, in many ways that level of work, say what we call the blue collar, for lack of a better term, is very different from say factory-type of work, which also takes skill. Concerned over jamming up valuable near-Earth orbits with so much space junk, modern satellites are increasingly being designed with automatic disposal systems that help make sure they are safely deorbited even in the event of a system failure. Right now theres about 31,000 open jobs in the public sector, meaning government in the military for cybersecurity professionals. He joined me afterward on a tripto Null Space Labs for their open night. I had heard of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but had never looked closely at the particulars of the project. I was invited to tour the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems campus in Los Angeles this spring and it was fantastic! For more about the program, CyberPatriot Commissioner and Ret. Northrop Grumman and Northrop Grumman Foundation has supported the program since its inception of giving out about a quarter-million dollars in scholarships in the program, as has Cisco. Tom Temin: And just briefly, what do we know about the winning teams this year? And the other element that youve raised is about compensation. The cross-section they showed as an example was not much thicker than your fingernail but obviously quite rigid in the cast pipe shape. Air Force Brig. Not a pro programmer yet? Its growing like crazy, course COVID took a toll on us because a lot of schools werent meeting in session in person. Sven Arnold liked Dragon R1 - Open source RC car. The goal of the challenges is to provide students with an effective, team based approach to solving cybersecurity issues and to expose them to real world security problems and varying technologies and provide them with high-impact, hand-on experience before they enter the workforce. But there are other elements of national security, including technological superiority, including a strong economy and an educated public. To continue to innovate and excel, it is imperative for us to help develop students abilities and interest in STEM to place them on a path towards workforce readiness. Work to includedeveloping and implementing Algorithms for extracting information from Text or Imagery data. NYIT, through their Hackathon series is developing the teamwork, problem-solving and resourcefulness that is needed to counter real-life cyber threats. Tom Temin: Tell us about this program generally, refresh our memories on how this works every year, because its really exciting, I think, for the associations and the companies and the kids involved. You cant wait till theyre a college graduate, you cant wait till theyre ready to go into the workforce. Part of this initiative is to get more engineers learning about the fabrication process. 2022 Northrop Grumman. The teams form up in a school, they learn the basics of cybersecurity from online training that we provide. Tools are scanned to each employee, if broken or worn out there are vending machines throughout the plant keeping track of them through a computerized system. I had the impression that I was living an episode of one of my favorite programs How Its Made, and that was awesome! You know, right now, and you can find any number you want. VEX Robotics gives students the opportunity to develop a passion for robotics in a fun, hands-on way. Bernard Skoch:Well, its trying to address a national need, Tom.
But as you point out, the compensation isnt all financial, its emotional, its psychological compensation. But how does it all work mechanically, because they cant all gather in a convention center, at least not this past year? Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. Contact Sarah Hessasta at shessast@nyit.edu for more information. What were thrilled with, of course Tom, now is weve been around long enough, were starting to see the results. You can just make out a blue sphere hiding in the underbody. Each mirror is made by Ball Aerospace out of beryllium. But the constant drive to push ever further into space meant that soon satellites would remain in orbit for years at a time. Teardown: How Many Teddy Ruxpins Does It Take To Start A Coven? We have made it a top priority to help develop a diverse workforce through strategic STEM education programs and initiatives that align to the companys future talent needs. Bernard Skoch:About six kids on a team. They have huge engineered columns which have since been reinforced with steel. If building the James Webb Space Telescope and F/A-18 fighter jets arent enough reasons to work for Northrop Grumman, theres always the FabLab the company sponsored hackerspace. One is just what you described that the sophistication of the attacks, the complexity of the systems increases every year. But what if the satellite fails or runs out of propellant before the decision to retire it can be made? Positions will involve full scale development using an Agile Process to create web service components within an existing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In the Northrop high bay they were working on the mounting system for these mirrors. And thats what the Air Force Associations CyberPatriot program is all about. So even though the processes might be similar, youre using your brain as much as your typing fingers. The spider-like head works next to a turningmandrel fitted with the form of the piece being fabricated. Work with software leads and domain experts to design software components to comply with an initial component level CDD (Component Definition Document) specification, and then help flesh the CDD out to capture the detailed software design. One big move in this direction is the formation of their FabLab. Thats a huge jamming gripper powered by the black and yellow shop-vac perched atop the chassis. The concave surface is coated in gold for reflectivity and an actuator mounted on the back of each mirror can flex the surfaceto adjust the concavity and thereby the focal length. Its about twice as tough as a basketball team in the NCAA women or men reaching the Final Four. The candidate will be responsible for configuring and troubleshooting large-scale software systems. And they get immediate feedback, they fix the vulnerabilities, they get scored. Hes the founder of their FabLab (which Ill talk about a bit later) and was so bold as to send an email asking if one of the crew would like to stop by. Northrop Grumman offers a challenging Software Engineering Rotational Program for recent graduates with a BS and/or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Software Engineering. Bernard Skoch:While the program has evolved significantly, since it started. This is past the moon, about 1.5 million kilometers from the earth. Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy. The Professional Development Program offers the opportunity to experience several different job assignments before making a commitment to remain in a particular position. This exciting and fast paced Research and Development project will plan, execute, and assess an Offensive Cyberspace Operation (OCO) mission. But our growth curve is phenomenal. When I saw it, folding wings had been added to either side of this main structure to hosta dual-row of mirrors which are folded back into the telescopes during its storage position. Execute the full lifecycle design-to-deployment process utilizing the open standards based APIs and tool chain to design and build reusable software components for various target programs and domains. It will be interesting to see if the FabLab can build the kind of grass-roots community often associated with standalone hackerspaces. On the other hand, Northrop (plus NASA and all of their subcontractors) has been doing tough stuff for a very long time. There is a decline in women and minority students going into STEM careers. We need people in the careers that are blue collar, if you will, that are doing the system administration work in corporate America and in the public sector. Its not just going into space. But the fuselage less cockpit, nose, wings, and engines is still a formidable sight. Theyre in the process of hiring thousands of engineers and part of this process is making the job fit with the lifestyle that these engineers want. It was nice that [Tony] and his colleague [Adam] came right out and told me they reached out to Hackaday because they want to get the message out that Northrop is rejuvenating their corporate culture. For this to happen it needs to have a very good optical array to gather infrared light and focus it on a collector, and it must be isolated from the heat of the sun, earth, and moon. So weve got middle schoolers that are learning about cyber vulnerabilities. Please contact Susan Rushkowski at publicfiledc@hubbardradio.com or (202) 895-5027. When NYIT asked us to sponsor their Hackathon, we were really pleased to participate. Afreez Gan has updated the project titled Mini Pupper: Open-Source,ROS Robot Dog Kit. And we can help you to obtain/maintain a valuable high-level DoD clearance (TS/SCI). Its great to be here. Our minority participation, underrepresented populations is about 42%. Seeking software engineers to design, code, test and integrate application software components built on top of an open architecture real-time component framework. There is an array of 18 hexagonal mirrors which reflect the infrared onto a collecting mirror and in turn to the sensors. Certainly national defense is part of it. Designed specifically for middle school teachers, the Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy builds teacher confidence and classroom excellence in science, engineering and technology, and helps teachers to understand the skills needed for a scientifically literate workforce. Thousands of satellites are in orbit above the planet, and theyll need to be dealt with in the coming years. I guess 30,000 people online, its not that big a number in this day and age. Cryptography is the use of codes and ciphers to protect information and has been used for thousands of years. They want this talent, but so does Northrop Grumman. Questions? Explore new career challenges as a System Administrator/Integrator at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. But the difference is that every night youre on the cyber job, or every day, youre on the cyber job, theres a different challenge coming in. And we need everyone pitching in we cant have populations declare, Well, thats not for me. We want everyone to see this as a career track. It showed much more progress than the two images seen above. You bet! And you, Tom, were dealing with middle school students in many cases. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies. And so weve driven female participation up to about 27%, or double the national average. Roles and Responsibilities include: Ensures software standards are met; Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions; Determines computer user needs; Analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; Performs in depth detailed research of software and methodologies; And ensures configuration management processes and procedures are met in accordance with best practices. You can get a glimpse at the grand opening of the space in this video. Hats off to [Tony] and his FabLab team forpulling off a great hack and giving [Raul] back his art. Some of the things I found really interesting were the systems in place to make sure no part goes missing. Our 90,000 employees Define Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. The challenges involved in meeting the specification of this telescope are jaw-dropping and Im certain the people working on the projectacross many different companies will make this happen. Bernard Skoch:What a great question again. The main problem facing this satellite is heat.
Our education strategy focuses on engineering- and technology-based programs and initiatives that excite, engage, and educate students and serve as professional development resources for teachers, with a primary focus on middle grades. Northrop Grumman has an educational outreach program so if youre associated with a school in the area set up a tour of the JWST!