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community partnerships in motion
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investment in our corporation, working to generate top financial performance and pursuing a long-range strategy that will sustain that performance.”
The company’s reporting continues to focus on the environmental and social responsibilities most critical to key stakeholders including shareholders, customers, employees, academics, local communities, contractors, media, governments and suppliers. For the 2010 edition, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) confirmed Northrop Grumman’s “A” reporting level.
The new report continues the company’s hallmarks of a strong focus on absolute integrity and attention to longstanding core values. To demonstrate transparency, the report covers the company’s governance, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, supplier responsibility and diversity, environment, community, disaster relief, and military/veterans support. For the first time, the report includes a section detailing GRI performance indicators to further improve transparency and accountability. Other reported 2010 highlights include:
• Education: Provided aid to higher education grants to more than 106 universities totaling $1.9 million.
• Community: Contributed $29.9 million in total philanthropic donations.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Ranked #2 for “Top 50 Employers” by Minority Engineer Magazine.
To view the 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report online visit: http://www.northropgrumman.com/corporate-responsibility/csr-reports/index.html
Northrop Grumman made big strides in its environmental efforts last year, as stated in the 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report now available online. Northrop Grumman began reporting voluntarily on environmental and social performance with its first corporate responsibility report documenting 2007.
Specifically, in 2010 Computerworld Magazine ranked Northrop Grumman as one of the Top 12 Green IT organizations in 2010, the only company in its industry to make that list. Also in 2010, the company’s score for the Carbon Disclosure Project improved by 62 percent.
“Corporate responsibility is a key component of the value we provide to all our stakeholders,” says Wes Bush, chief executive officer and president, in his message opening the report. “For our shareholders, we strive to be outstanding stewards of their
Northrop Grumman’s Community Involvement Newsletter • Q2 2011 • Issue 13
2010 CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY REPORT—NORTHROP GRUMMAN MAKES BIG ENVIRONMENTAL GAINS
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SECTOR ROUNdUPA quick look at some of the many community outreach efforts here at Northrop Grumman.
EMPLOYEES CLEAN UP WETLANdS
On May 14 members of the mission operations software department at Northrop Grumman-Xetron spent the morning removing trash and cutting honeysuckle in Ohio at the Koogler Reserve wetlands in Beavercreek.
Employees chose this activity based largely on the positive impact that the wetlands has on the Little Miami corridor and flood control. Given the amount of rain that has fallen this year in the area, the cleanup was especially appropriate.
SNAKES ANd ROBOTS—STUdENTS MARVEL AT SCIENCE ANd ENGINEERING FAIR
Staff from Special Olympics present Northrop Grumman an award for being a sponsor.
Posing with some of the trash pulled from the creek that runs through the wetlands are Xetron employees, from left to right, Sam Banzhaf, Paul Brown, Allen Farel, Woody Willis, Rob Evans (Beavercreek Wetlands Association President), Pete Bohman, Josh Fuerst, Ryan Lamb and Adam Horton.
A “snake” with some 10 triangular segments, a remote controlled transforming robot on wheels, the “Jet Works Flight Simulator” video dogfight game and the CyberPatriot security demo attracted streams of curious students to the Northrop Grumman Foundation booth at Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in June.
Student inventors, researchers and scientists were especially drawn to the sophistication and utilitarian nature of the robotics devices brought to the booth by Peter Abrahamson, of Applied Minds, a strategic partner in Northrop Grumman’s Futures Lab, which is commissioned to develop innovative thinking and ideas that may lead to technology differentiators for Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman representatives Chris
Orlowski, of the corporate engineering council, and Carleen Beste, corporate citizenship, were on hand to meet and greet students, parents and teachers along with a group of their colleagues who volunteered to help with the event.
“Being here is amazing,” Beste said. “There are, obviously, incredibly bright students participating in the International Science and Engineering Fair, the type of students we would like to have as employees five years from now. Many of them are not familiar with our company or what we do. It’s a great audience to reach.”
The Northrop Grumman Foundation was a contributing sponsor to ISEF as part of its coordinated focus upon increasing awareness of science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields on a national level.
COMING TOGETHER FOR CALIFORNIA SPECIAL OLYMPICSSixty Northrop Grumman employees and their friends and families volunteered at the 2011 Summer Games on June 11 and 12 at California State University at Long Beach. Volunteers staffed the Northrop Grumman booth and ran the water duck race for the 1,100 Special Olympics athletes who competed in aquatics, basketball, bocce, golf, gymnastics and track and field.
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SECTOR ROUNdUP continuedA quick look at some of the many community outreach efforts here at Northrop Grumman.
Rolling Meadows employees prepare the bins of donated food before delivery to the Palatine Township June 17.
Palatine Township employees Connie Osmer (left), Regina Stapleton, Janice Peterson, Christine Favia and Township Administrator Paul Pioch (second from right) receive employee donations from Northrop Grumman Receiver Specialist Craig Gustafsson and Communications Intern Ashley Veurink during the Rolling Meadows facility summer food drive.
Front row are students Peter Gutierrez (left) and Ken Linares. Back row (from left): Adriana Velazquez (Adelante), Giovanni Vela Enriquez (Adelante), Synclair Gonzalez (student), Natalie Landivar (teacher), Xavier Manzano (student) and Lorraine Pegorari (assistant principal).
KICKING OFF SUMMER WITH A FOOd dRIVEEmployees from Rolling Meadows donated two large bins of food to the Palatine Township during a summer food drive. The food drive took place for one week in June and is held annually as another way for employees to support the local community.
SPACE CAMP PROVIdES THE ULTIMATE LEARNING EXPERIENCENorthrop Grumman Foundation sponsored unique opportunities for 48 students and 16 teachers nationwide to participate in an exciting mission to Space Camp in early August. The goal for the student component of Space Camp, located in Huntsville, Alabama, was to inspire and motivate the next generation of explorers, scientists, teachers and engineers. The Northrop Grumman Foundation sponsorship provides life-changing experiences to students who have the potential to excel with the right support and inspires them to dream big.
The teacher component, called Space Academy for Educators, amplifies that mission by using the excitement of the space program to create an immersive learning environment where teachers learn to effectively present concepts in their classrooms.
For the first year, employees at the Northrop Grumman facility in Azusa, California participated in the program. The Adelante employee resource group there, thanks to the Foundation support, coordinated Space Camp attendance for four students and one teacher from nearby Slauson Middle School.
The 2011 recipients of Northrop Grumman’s annual Engineering Scholars award visit the Rolling Meadows facility to celebrate individual $10,000 scholarships. In the photo, from left: Jim Cascino (parent), Ashley Veurink (Northrop Grumman communications summer intern), Shelia Cascino (parent), Ellen Hamilton (Northrop Grumman director of communications), Kevin Cascino (scholarship winner), Carl Smith (Northrop Grumman vice president of infrared countermeasures) Bryan Filippelli (scholarship winner), Nicole Ackleson (Northrop Grumman communications specialist), Bob Leppen (Northrop Grumman talent acquisition manager) and parents Kathy and Ralph Filippelli.
ENGINEERING SCHOLARS RECEIVE AWARdS
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In June, three students successfully completed the first year of the Annapolis WORTHY program. Nicholas Lapides, Jameel Shums-Ward and Mackenzie White, seniors at Annapolis High School, celebrated with their parents and used WORTHY Day as a forum to present their acquired learning to the Undersea Systems leadership team. The students’ presentation included building and testing an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) along with experiences gained from their understanding of how different engineering principles apply to design and construction of ROVs.
WORTHY is a signature science, technology, engineering and mathematics program that started at the Electronic Systems sector in Baltimore in 1998. The WORTHY mentoring program is one of many programs to address the growing demand for future engineers for Northrop Grumman and other regional employers. The Annapolis WORTHY program started with three students in 2010 and will expand to six students in September 2011. The mentoring program provides employees with an opportunity play a key role in sharing knowledge and helping future engineers. Special thanks to first-year WORTHY mentors Todd Bruner, Jackson Cheng, Luke Kappers, Mairim Ramos-Lebron, Lindsay Vuolo and Vince Wilburn.
MENTORING PROGRAM LOGS FIRST-YEAR SUCCESS
WORTHY Day Attendees attend a demo of the remotely operated vehicle.From left to right, Jameel Shums-Ward, Mackenzie White and Nicholas Lapides.