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Aircraft Systems Division
As the direct descendant of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Company, the Aircraft Systems Division was manufacturing F-14A and F-14D fighters and C-2A transports of the USN, A-6E attack aircraft and EA-6B aircraft for the USN and USMC, and E-2C AEW aircraft for the USN and export customers. Work was done at facilities in Bethpage, Calverton, and other locations.
The division was also working on the Air Force-managed Peace Pearl contract to provide a modern fire control system for the Shenyang J-8 II fighter and on a preliminary design contract from the China National Aero Technology Import-Export Corporation (CATIC) to develop an advanced version of the Xiam F-7M fighter (Chinese built MiG-21) with a General Electric F404/RM12 turbofan with side intakes, increased fuel capacity, an AN/APG-66 radar, and enlarged wings with two additional store stations. Moreover, since Fairchild went out of business in 1987, the Aircraft Systems Division has provided product support for the A-10A.
Two previously independent divisions, the Aerostructures Division and the St. Augustine Division, were placed under the Aircraft Systems Division in 1989 to improve efficiency and reduce administrative costs. Using facilities in Bethpage, Calverton, and Melville, New York, Milledgeville, Georgia and Stuart, Florida, Aerostructures Operations is a major sub-contractor to aerospace companies for design and production of structural assemblies for aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles. Major work in 1989 included composite spoilers and center wing bean and keel assmebly for the Boeing 767, composite transcowls for GE CF6-80C2 nacelles, Tay nacells for the Gulfstream IV and Fokker 100, empennages for the Bell Helicopter Textron/Boeing Helicopter V-22 Osprey, and composite flight control surfaces for the McDonnell Douglas C-17.
St. Augustine Operations continued as an overhaul for modification facility serving the military and commercial aircraft markets. In 1989, its principal projects were the S-2T re-engining and updating program for export customers and the overhaul and modification of A-6s and KA-6s for the USN and USMC. It also provided logistic and service support for out-of-production Grumman aircraft, primarily HU-16s and S-2s. Another entity reporting to the Aircraft Systems Division, a Grumman Houston Operations in Webster, Texas, operated primarily as a NASA contractor for specialized hardware and services.
Allied Divisions
In its first year of operations, the Grumman producted its first aluminium truck bodies and in the autumn of 1945, the company built its first aluminium canoes. IN 1989, the Allied Division of the Grumman Corporation was delivering a broad range of non-aerospace products including the postal delivery vans (LLVs), aluminium truck bodies, and a full line of fire fighting equipment, as well as a line of fishing and sport boats and canoes from plants in several states. Subsidiaries of the Allied Division were Boats, LLV, Grumman Olson, and Grumman Emergency Products Inc.
Corporate Services Division
This division was organized to centralize overhead activities such as Business Operations, Counsel, Corporate Procurement, Human Resources Planning, and Facilities Management for Grumman Corporation, its Operating Divisions and subsidiaries.
Data Systems Division
From its new facility in Holtsville, New York, the Data Systems Division pursued work in five major segments: Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence systems, computerized test systems, engineering and scientific systems, management information systems, and integrated manufacturing systems. Its subsidiaries were Grumman Data Systems Institute, InfoConversion and Systems Support.
In its Bethpage headquarters and in facilities located in Maryland, New Jersey, and Texas, the Electronics Systems Division designed, manufactured, and integrated sophisticated electronics for aircraft, computerized test equipment and other defense-related products, and products for the broadcasting and communications industries. Major military projects underway in 1988 were the Integrated Family of Test Equipment, or IFTE, which will be used by the Army to diagnose electronic problems of equipment in the field, and the Teleoperated Mobile Antiarmor Platform, or TMAP, a four-wheeled remotely operated vehicle that will carry many mission payloads and will be operated by infantrymen through a fiberoptic link. Associated with Northrop, the Electronics Systems Division was also developing an inexpensive guidance device which could give standard bombs an accuracy similar to that achieved by guided missiles. A subsidiary, Tachonics Corporation, designed and built integrated circuits on gallium arsenide. Gallium arsenide was said to have better frequency performance and substantially increased resistance to heat and radition than silicon and was thus well-suited for the manufacture of EMP-hardened military electronics.
Melbourne Systems Division
Located in Melbourne, Florida, this division was primarily responsible for the Air Force/Army Joint STARS program which provided for the development and testing of two 707s modified by Boeing. Designated E-8As, these two test bed aircraft carry Grumman-designed systems to detect, locate, classify, and track large numbers of stationary and moving targets and to provide real-time battlefield surveillance and attack management for air and land battles. Adoption of the Joint STARS by the USAF, US Army, and NATO could result in a ten billion dollar program.
Space Station Programe Support Division
Spun off from the Space Systems Division, this division assisted NASA with program control and management, information systems, operations, program requirements and assessment, systems engineering, safety, reliability, quality assurance, and international integration for the Space Station Program. The initial contract awarded in July 1987 had a value of over 800 billion dollars and provided for work during more than ten years. Additional options may increase contract value to 1.2 billion dollars.
Space Systems Division
The Space Systems Division was working as a sub-contractor on various packages to develop NASAs Manned Space Station. As a member of a Boeing-led team, it was designing and building the station's crew quarters; teamed with TRW and Robotics Research Corporation, it was competing for the preliminary design of a station robot; and associated with TRW it was working on the Orbital Maneurvering Vehicle (OMV), a so-called space tug which would be used to deliver and retrieve orbiting satellites.
The division was also taking part in the final phase of an Air Force competition to develop the Boost Surveillance Tracking System (BSTS) to detect and tract ballistic missiles just after launch as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Techinical Services Division
This division serviced and maintained military flight simulators and trainers, provided product support for Grumman aircraft, and as a Lockheed sub-contractor, helped ready the Space Shuttle for successive flights.
