Roles
The C word
Staffing
Miscellany
100

The responsible party (ies) for ensuring employees are challenged and satisfied in their jobs.

What is ES&T Leaders and Program Managers?

100

You need this in order to successfully work as a team to solve a problem.

What is cooperation?

100

True or False

ES&T Managers are required to determine if an employee who meets the basic qualifications is available before going to Talent Acquisition for support within 72 hours.

What is True?

100
The R in TRW is linked to this highly regarded engineer and NG honors employees who are also exceptional engineers with an award named after him.

Who is Simon Ramo?

200

It's this person's responsibility to contact the ES&T Business Facing Leader when a significant performance issue or skill mismatch takes place.

What is the Program Manager?

200

At times, program resources are tasked by their managers to support these important projects that generate new business for Northrop Grumman.

What is a capture?

200

We are building this when strategically moving suppliers to other contact vehicles to bring on NG talent offered up by ES&T.

What is Northrop Grumman labor base?

200

This is increased when employees on contract work their expected 40 hours a week as forecasted.

What is Sales?

300

True or False:

An ES&T Manager can increase an employee's salary without coordinating with the Program Leadership.


What is False?

300

This role is responsible for the solution review, C-101 sign off, and sign off on all Tech Volume BOEs.

What is a Chief Engineer?

300

This newly built SCIF space conveniently located off the 495 beltway offers customers another cleared talent pool to draw to supplement the work we are doing here in AJ.

What is Colshire or McLean?

300

The NSS BU was recently awarded with this and it comes with a gift of a dart board.

What is Predictability Award?

400

A program leader hears of a soon to be terminating supplier on program and notifies ES&T by generating this.

What is a resource need request?

400

Program Managers leverage open program billets with ES&T Leaders to generate this fully capable workforce of the future.

What is clearance pipeline?

400

This is increased when bidding an NG recompete where the team is predominately staffed by NG performers.

What is PWIN?

400

This person has responsibility to keep NG sold with our customer, to be a valued, trusted and contributing team member, and to help make NG a great place to work.

Who is me?

500

This responsible party cooperates with ES&T Leaders to provide input to corrective action plans, goal setting and performance feedback.

Who is the Program Manager or Program Leader?

500

This is needed from every NSS BU employee to achieve our greatest potential and meet NG financial goals and to be recognized as the only valued partner to our customers.

What is commitment?

500

Two applicants apply to a single opening, one is NG and one is sourced by a key supplier company. Both candidates are interviewed and assessed to be equally qualified for the open billet.  The supplier candidate can start in 2 weeks and the internal person can start in 4 weeks with a transition plan.  

The supplier candidate is hired.  This is called...

What is a bad decision?

500

The organization ideal to use as a place to clear exceptional talent while working on unclassified technology pursuits that could be applied on program.

What is IRAD?