We serve more than 1,400 life science industry customers and are the largest bioinformatics contractor to the National Institutes of Health.

Life Sciences

The Life Sciences division manages clinical trials information, improves post-market surveillance and creates bioinformatics solutions for the pharmaceutical industry and leading academic institutions. As the maintainer of MedDRA (the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities), Northrop Grumman serves more than 1,400 life science industry customers. Northrop Grumman is also one of the largest bioinformatics contractors to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as a leader in implementing work process driven technology solutions for the Life Sciences marketplace. Northrop Grumman Life Sciences is:

• Building clinical data management systems
• Developing and supporting biomedical research systems 
• Creating planning / monitoring systems for clinical trial management
• Creating adverse event reporting systems
• Managing international reporting terminologies
• Integrating academic analysis tools with robust data management technologies
• Exploring open source solutions

Northrop Grumman provides a wide range of solutions and services to help you gain greater value from your R&D investment, while assuring the safety and cost-effectiveness you require. Enlisting our proven information technology and healthcare capabilities, you'll see faster decision-making, more effective use of resources, reduced time-to-market and enhanced patient safeguards. 

Your Roadmap to Secure, Cost-Effective Research and Development (R&D)

Northrop Grumman has served scientific laboratories and health and research institutions for 20 years. Blending advanced information technology with world-class health expertise, Northrop Grumman provides solutions to address a new generation of health challenges, including:

• Bioinformatics
• Health information management
• Information privacy & protection
• Lab information systems and management
• Disease surveillance systems
• Electronic health records
• Registries, networks and data exchanges
• Systems integration and assessments
• Clinical trials IT

Northrop Grumman deploys award-winning IT solutions to support electronic enterprises worldwide. In the pharmaceutical industry, Northrop Grumman supports the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA), serving as the official Maintenance and Support Services Organization (MSSO). We maintain and distribute the electronic medical dictionary via online subscriptions to more than 1,400 organizations around the world. The biopharmaceutical industry and regulatory authorities use this globally accepted terminology to codify, analyze and communicate adverse events occurring in clinical trials and post-marketing products.

Data Management and Informatics

The data necessary to make sound and timely decisions for your clinical trials typically resides in multiple sources throughout your organization, as well as with trusted partners and other external sources. Our data management and informatics solutions streamline your ability to capture, structure and derive added value from the information in these disparate data sources. We support our customers, including biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs), with solutions for complex data management and informatics challenges.

Trials Management Solutions

Sponsors and CROs rely on our advanced management solutions to conduct successful trials. Not only do these solutions add efficiency to the daily tasks of data collection and monitoring, they also supply the information visibility that managers and executives need for better forecasting and faster, more effective decisions. CRF WorkManager is our workflow-driven business process management system that helps most of the top Pharmaceutical and CROs better manage their trials. 

Electronic Health Records

The mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States offers many potential opportunities for the pharmaceutical industry. Northrop Grumman brings clinical research knowledge and a long history of implementing large-scale & global EHR systems and is uniquely positioned to lead the integration between life sciences, healthcare and EHRs. As a strategic partner, Northrop Grumman can help speed drug discovery, enhance safety and reduce the cost of research & development for the life sciences industry. Our history of success underlines our unique capabilities in this field.

Bioinformatics

Northrop Grumman is an active participant in the emerging field of bioinformatics. We have been working for the National Cancer Institute for Bioinformatics developing and supporting their Enterprise Vocabulary System (EVS). Our efforts include architecture and infrastructure design and development along with data quality, concept mapping and software integration support for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), where we have collaborated and developed two new bioinformatics systems. For the Microbiology and Infectious Disease community, the Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) has resulted in the Biodefense and Public Health Database (BioHealthBase) BRC, which provides scientists with an integrated source of complex, high-quality genomic, proteomic and supporting scientific data in which to contribute, access, process and exchange data during scientific collaboration. We also were chosen to develop a new integrated data warehouse and bioinformatics framework for the NIAID Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation community. This engagement is the Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract (BISC) project, and the corresponding system is the Immunology Database and Access Portal (ImmPort). This is a scientific data management initiative to link genomic, basic scientific and clinical data from various sources; to enable scientists to easily contribute, access and exchange complex, high-quality data sets; and to archive data for large NIAID research programs. These types of value-added propositions enhance the scientific discovery process through data integration and novel analysis approaches.

Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Support

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) selected Northrop Grumman to develop and deliver its Electronic Labeling Information Processing System (ELIPS). This system provides storage, reviewing, editing and transmission to National Library of Medicine (NLM). Because of this experience, we understand the costs, benefits and requirements of deploying SPL better than any company in the world. In addition, our XML eSubmissions experience also extends to PIM, the European regulatory standard for the electronic exchange of product information That makes us the perfect choice to help you develop an effective SPL or PIM solution and maximize its value to our clients' business strategy, while meeting regulatory requirements and establishing productive government relationships.

Identity Management & Information Assurance

Northrop Grumman is the nation's leading IT security services and solutions provider to the public sector and is a trusted partner in the biopharmaceutical industry to meet legal and regulatory requirements and standards for identity credentialing, digital information security, authentication and enterprise asset protection. As an active participant in the development and application of the Signatures and Authentication For Everyone (SAFE) Standard for the SAFE-BioPharma Association and its Members, we can assist you in applying SAFE to your trusted business-to-business and business-to-regulator transactions worldwide. We are a single source for complete end-to-end information security life cycle solutions compliant with HIPAA, SOX, GLB and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements. Whether you require policy / procedure development, program management, or enterprise, department or system-level information security implementation support, we can tailor our methodology and offerings to your specific needs.