Northrop Grumman is the latest company to set up development and innovation facilities near Britain’s GCHQ, which describes itself as “a security and intelligence organization tasked by government to protect the nation from threats.”
The company’s UK arm has opened a cyber center employing close to 100 people in the Gloucestershire area in southwest England focusing on the development and demonstration of technology solutions, according to a report in Defense News. It follows Raytheon UK’s recent announcement that it too had opened a cyber innovation center in Gloucestershire.
Both facilities have joined a fast-expanding industry hub in the region around the Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, headquarters of GCHQ.
The government reported in December that the Malvern cybersecurity industry in nearby Worcestershire was fast becoming Britain’s “cyber valley” with the number of companies clustered in the area rising from about 50 in 2012 to nearly 75 today.
