Rules and Guidelines

The Joint Referral Campaign for Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology and Mission Systems Sectors.

Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology and Mission Systems sectors have joined to give you one more way to earn referral bonuses. Now it PAY$ to refer a friend to both sectors.

To receive an employee referral award, the following criteria must be met:

Employee Eligibility

• You must be a current Information Technology or Mission Systems sector employee at the time of the award payout.
• Hiring managers are eligible to receive an award for referring a candidate to a position that is NOT under their direction.
• Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) employees and employees whose primary function involves the recruiting or hiring of Northrop Grumman employees are not eligible to receive awards.

Candidate Eligibility

• Information Technology and Mission Systems sector candidate positions eligible for employee referral awards are identified with a red asterisk (*) on the Northrop Grumman Careers Web site.
• Candidates must meet the basic qualifications for employee referral award-eligible positions.
• Candidates must accept an offer of full or part-time employment into an award-eligible position. Full or part-time positions do not include summer hires, internships, on-call or temporary positions.
• Candidates must not be a former employee, co-op, intern, on-call employee, consultant, contractor or currently employed in a temporary employment status by Northrop Grumman or its subsidiaries.*


* Information Technology will honor any candidate listed above who has not worked for Northrop Grumman within the past 12 months.

• Referrals should be submitted online. Click here to submit a referral.

• The Employee Referral Award Program Offices will determine whether or not all conditions for award eligibility have been met after the referral's start date. In the event the same candidate is referred by more than one employee or by more than one source, the award determination will be paid based on the earliest recorded referral date or the receipt date of referrals from other sources.  Once your referral has agreed to be submitted and updated/confirmed the profile you initiated for them, you will receive an email from NGC.  This will be a referral confirmation for you.   In the event of a dispute, you will need to produce this email, entitled: “Profile Update Alert”. An award may be withheld if the employee making the referral cannot produce this email at the time of the award determination.
• The company reserves the right to determine which positions will qualify for an award, and may change the amount of the award. Referral Awards will be based on the employee referral award values at the time of the referral’s start date.
• All referral award incentives are subject to tax withholding.