Aviation giant, Northrop Grumman, has donated 10 thousand dollars to the Northland Community & Technical College Foundation, dollars that will be used to seed the start up of the newly formed Northland Aerospace Foundation.

The donation was presented Tuesday by Ed Walby with Northrop Grumman.

The new Aerospace Foundation will support growth in Northland’s aviation programs, including Aviation Maintenance along with Unmanned Aerial Systems and Imagery and Data Analysis – the first programs of their kind in the nation.

Northrop Grumman – a leader in unmanned systems – has been a key partner throughout the growth of Northland Aerospace Program, with several donations including a full scale Global Hawk UAS model in 2011.