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Northrop Grumman notified about 60 people, primarily in Maryland and Virginia, in its electronics systems sector that they will be an out of jobs at the end of the month.

The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key U.S. Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's Baltimore-area operations, company leaders said.

Computer science students at Hammond High School aren't just reading textbooks and taking notes these days, but are designing actual software, like interactive fossil fuel maps, for their fellow students to use in other classes.

Looming federal budget cuts make a whole lot of Marylanders nervous because a whole lot of Maryland depends on Uncle Sam for a paycheck — directly or indirectly.

Northrop Grumman will cut 350 jobs from its electronics systems sector, with the majority of the reductions likely hitting in the Baltimore area, the defense giant said Tuesday.

A five-month stretch of job losses in Maryland came to an end in August with a small gain, too modest to keep the state's unemployment rate from ticking up to 7.1 percent.

ELTA North America, an Israeli defense company, has opened in Howard County

Israel Aerospace Industries' new ELTA North America subsidiary officially opened its headquarters in Howard County Monday with a plan to go from nine employees to 100 in the next four years.

Science Applications International Corp. announces plan to split into two public companies.

Congress must not allow devastating cuts in defense spending

St. John Properties, Inc. has initiated construction on 6170 and 6160 Guardian Gateway, two new single-story, Class A office buildings in the Government and Technology Enterprise (The GATE) project, a 416-acre business community inside Aberdeen Proving Ground, according to a company press release.

Manufacturers such as AAI and Lockheed Martin, research at Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland and other institutions, and testing and development at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Patuxent River have combined to make Maryland a center of the burgeoning drone industry.

Robert L. Wallace, CEO of Baltimore-based Bithgroup Technologies, has spent more than two decades building a minority-owned business into a multimillion dollar success and writing and lecturing about entrepreneurship.

Maryland defense contractors are asking lawmakers for details on the so-called sequester — deep budget cuts, including $800 billion to defense spending, due to strike Jan. 2 because the congressional supercommittee failed last year to reach a deficit-reduction agreement.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's use of attack helicopters against civilians shows the regime's desperation

The University of Maryland, College Park will use a $1.1 million grant from defense giant Northrop Grumman to establish a new honors concentration in cybersecurity.

Four Cockeysville Middle School teachers each recently received Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grants from Northrop Grumman.

Relay Elementary School students learn from visit by civil engineer.

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. warned state regulators that it will be laying off 224 employees across the country, including dozens based at Fort Meade, after losing a contract to provide security for the National Security Agency.

Despite looming budget cuts and anti-government rhetoric in Congress, Maryland officials say the two massive federal agencies based in Woodlawn — which have long helped buoy the region's economy — may be better positioned than others to ride out the political turbulence expected over the next several years.

Ralph William Townsend, a retired computer and systems expert, died Sunday of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia. He was 82.

Northrop Grumman Corp. will lay off 90 workers in Maryland — part of a total of 400 nationwide — in its Electronic Systems sector, part of a downsizing plan announced in October, the company said Tuesday.

Hereford: Internist Dr. George LaRocco, of Monkton, opens St. Joseph Health Park, affiliated with St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.

The governors of Maryland and Virginia may be rivals on the national level, but they have cooperated on some regional issues

Marylanders from nearly every walk of life could be affected by across-the-board budget cuts starting in 2013 as a result of the congressional supercommittee's failure to reach an agreement to trim the nation's spiraling budget deficits.

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Wednesday she expects the Senate will pass a budget bill on Tuesday that will include $530 million to continue work toward launch of the Webb Telescope in 2018

Layoffs at Northrop Grumman are yet another example of Maryland's poor business climate

Northrop Grumman Corp. will cut 800 jobs in its Electronic Systems sector by the end of January through layoffs and voluntary buyouts, mostly in Maryland, the defense company said Thursday

Ronald J. Schaefer, a retired Northrop Grumman Corp. contracts manager and avid bicyclist, died Oct. 6 from prostate cancer at his Timonium home. He was 78.

Ronald J. Schaefer, a retired Northrop Grumman Corp. contracts manager and avid bicyclist, died Oct. 6 from prostate cancer at his Timonium home. He was 78.

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope is coming to Baltimore's Inner Harbor

Federal spending in Maryland dropped by nearly $1.4 billion last fiscal year, the largest decline in 14 years, new Census Bureau figures show.

Systems engineer for Northrop Grumman remembered as "gadget geek extraordinaire."

Teresa Tingler won a raffle for a flag depicting the silhouette of a firefighter standing behind the skyline of New York City. The daughter of a city firefighter, Tingler will lend the flag to the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department so they can fly it on Sept. 11.

Mount Saint Joseph High School and St. Agnes School both received $200

The announcement this week that Chicago-based Exelon Corp. has struck a deal to take over Constellation came as something of a psychic blow. If the $7.9 billion deal is approved, and the parent of local utility BGE is absorbed , then Baltimore will lose its sole remaining Fortune 500 headquarters.

When NovaSom Inc. was looking to produce its diagnostic kits for measuring sleep apnea, the Glen Burnie-based company didn't look to factories in Asia or Mexico. Instead, it found a manufacturer right off the Beltway in Woodlawn.