Hermeus and Northrop Grumman team up on unmanned high-Mach aircraft
LOS ANGELES – November 12, 2026 -- Hermeus and Northrop Grumman have signed a strategic teaming agreement under which Northrop will design, develop, integrate and sustain mission systems for Hermeus' reusable, unmanned high-Mach aircraft for the U.S. military.
The scope covers sensing, communications, navigation, and command and control, so Northrop's role runs from initial design through sustainment. The work builds on Hermeus' in-house mission management system (MMS) core, which the company describes as an open, modular system that keeps flight-critical and mission-critical functions separated.
Hermeus says the MMS core follows the U.S. Government's AMS-GRA and A-GRA reference architectures and the OMS/UCI standards. The company says this lets the two partners integrate and update mission capabilities in weeks rather than years as requirements change. That is a company claim; no test data or program example accompanies it.