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The Marine Corps awarded Northrop Grumman a $958 million contract for production of a ground-based, mobile radar system produced at its Linthicum plant.

The owners of Craig Technologies, a Delaware plastics manufacturer, have acquired a majority stake in Salisbury-based Manufacturing Support Industries Inc. and

The Hogan administration is asking the General Assembly for more power to attract companies to Maryland — and to keep those that are here from leaving.

The $62 million incentive deal Gov. Larry Hogan and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett promised Marriott for building a new headquarters in Maryland ultimately came together in about a month last year, Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson said Tuesday.

Maryland lawmakers are poised to approve a $20 million forgivable loan to aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, the largest deal of its kind in state history.

Gov. Larry Hogan and the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly unveiled a compromise Tuesday that will provide $20 million to Northrop Grumman Corp. and an equal amount to alleviate the cost of teacher pensions for local school systems.

Marriott International said Tuesday it plans to commission new offices for its headquarters and build a hotel in downtown Bethesda, keeping its base in Maryland after securing incentives from the county and state worth about $60 million.

John C. Stuelpnagel, a retired Northrop Grumman software analyst and world traveler, died May 23 from heart failure at Symphony Manor assisted living in Roland Park. He was 79.

Northrop Grumman Corp would receive millions over the next five years in an incentive pushed by the Hogan administration, on top of $20 million lawmakers already intend to award the defense contractor for staying in Maryland.

Supporters of Gov. Larry Hogan's proposal to give Northrop Grumman $20 million to keep its headquarters in Maryland say the state is protected if the firm were to move, downsize or go out of business. The deal is structured as a loan that would be forgiven only if the firm meets certain conditions. But if Northrop Grumman failed to meet those terms, it's unlikely the state would recoup all of its money.

The Coast Guard has no rules to govern the operation of underwater drones in the Chesapeake Bay, a spokesman said Friday, but it does try to keep track of who is using unmanned submarines in U.S. waters.

An underwater drone that Northrop Grumman was using to conduct SONAR research in the Chesapeake Bay was caught this month by a local waterman, the defense contractor said Thursday.

Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $58.7 million contract from the Marine Corps to add ground detection capabilities to its mobile AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar system.

Century High School senior Katie Biggs has spent her high school career participating in STEM fields, from robotics to engineering, and plans to continue to hone those skills at Virginia Tech in the fall. In the meantime, she'll spend her summer at a Northrup Grumman internship.

Amanda Bilger says school has always come easy for her, but that doesn't mean she has breezed through Dulaney High School. Now a senior, she took the tough courses, helped the schools VEX Robotics Club qualify for three world competitions, sang in Dulaney's a capella chorus and tutored other kids at school. A newly named National Merit Scholarship winner, Bilger decided only at the end of April to attend Drexel University in Philadelphia in the fall. She has set her sights on a degree in

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Ringing in the new year with a brand-new marriage

As the Towson-Timonium Kiwanis club prepares for its 60th Baltimore Science Fair, organizers are hoping to recruit a few more student scientists to submit their research.

Cabaret entertainment arrived last week at The Shop in Cape St. Claire, a multi-tasking beauty shop by day that becomes a cozy coffee shop and entertainment center by night.

NASA's successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is at risk of falling behind on its schedule leading to an October 2018 launch, according to a government report.

The aerospace-and-defense giant Northrop Grumman says it is out $11 million, thanks to an allegedly fraudulent billing scheme carried out for a decade by a Maryland company, JADM, Inc., run by Columbia resident Rolf Ramelmeier.

Northrop Grumman just won a $207 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to produce a mobile ground radar system, the first of what could be a series of agreements worth more than $2 billion.

Thomas L. Kitchner Jr., a recently retired Baltimore Sun employee who earlier had worked at Westinghouse Electric Corp., died Sunday at Maryland Shock Trauma of complications from a fall. He was 66.

Hogan's plan for Md. doesn't add up

Officials with the Maryland Jockey Club said they are working on new plans for the future of their three Maryland horse racing facilities: Laurel Park, Pimlico Race Course and a training center in Bowie.

With food coming off the grill and going into Styrofoam containers, the food truck business is smokin' hot, sparking a nationwide culinary revolution. Over the last decade, the action has rolled south from Baltimore and north from Washington to Laurel, teasing and tantalizing discerning palettes from dawn to dusk.

The Board of Trustees of Carroll Community College elected David O'Callaghan as chair and Diane Foster as vice-chair, effective July 1.

Northrop Grumman broke ground Monday on a 25,00-square-foot facility specializing in cargo bound for space, the latest expansion for Maryland's slowly growing space industry.

An alumna of Notre Dame of Maryland University gave the college a $1.5 million gift that will fund an endowed chair in its School of Nursing.

Grace Macatee, a recent graduate of North Harford High School, has been named the Harford County winner in the 12th annual Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholars competition

A group of Patterson High School students were invited to the White House Science Fair to share solar-powered hovercrafts they built through the school's Project Lead the Way program.

Richard C. "Rick" Hrybyk, a Northrop Grumman electrical engineer and triathlete, died Friday of a heart attack at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 55.

University of Maryland, College Park President Wallace Loh has made it his top priority to remake the college into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, pushing the strategy not just in the business school but in almost every corner.

Enjoy the outdoors at Historic Ellicott City's annual Spring Celebration on Saturday, April 19, from noon to 7:30 p.m.

Carol Williams Hillery, a retired software engineer who had worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute, died of lung cancer Friday at her Bolton Hill home. She was 69.

If you think this year's winter weather was nerve-wracking, consider the climes groups of college students are grappling with this weekend at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

A week after the University of Maryland was the victim of a data breach, President Wallace D. Loh announced Tuesday that he is extending free credit protection services to the 309,000 students, alumni and employees affected from one to five years and forming a task force to identify any other vulnerabilities.

John P. O'Brien, a manufacturing supervisor who was also a charter boat captain, died Sunday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Severna Park home. He was 56.