Mail Trucks And Moon Trains — Northrop Grumman Review

Have you heard about the “Aspen Movie Map?”

It was like Google Street View — but created for the U.S. military in 1978!

Did you know Apple’s Siri was originally a high-tech military AI program?

And are you aware of a secret government project called “LifeLog” designed to “to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in?”

Facebook was publicly released shortly after LifeLog ended.

All these secret projects were funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a military research organization that’s shaped almost every aspect of the modern world. In fact, you’re currently using a DARPA invention, the Internet, to read this article!

While you can’t directly invest in DARPA, you can invest in a close-second.

Northrop Grumman Corporation ($NOC) helps co-develop many DARPA projects. For instance, the company is currently working to develop a functional “lunar railway” prototype that’s part of an on-going DARPA initiative to colonize the moon.

Northrop Grumman also makes the F/A-18 Super Hornet, the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, the B-21 Raider, and a variety of UAV drones.