2026 Business Management Intern

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Business Management Interns to join the Aeronautics Sector Intern Program. This position will be in Oklahoma City, OK.

The selected intern will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Lifecycle Sustainment and Modernization Solutions (LSMS). LSMS provides sustainment support for the US Air Force B-1 and B-2 Bombers, E-3 Sentry, Airborne Warning and Control System, and numerous other Government platforms. Our team members complete engineering, reverse engineering, and logistics solution efforts to solve complex obsolescence problems and ensure warfighter supportability.

As an intern, you’ll participate in a summer internship program to develop competencies in a variety of specializations that may include:

• Help develop and implement a cost‑control system for contracts, following government cost‑control guidelines.

• Assist in monitoring contract costs and schedules, flagging any variances for review by the manager.

• Support preparation of basic cost and schedule reports for internal leadership and government stakeholders.

• Help draft and update budgets and funding schedules for contract work, including simple funding profiles and sales outlooks.

• Assist with variance analysis to compare planned versus actual expenditures and highlight discrepancies.

• Support creation and updating of program plans, ensuring that all program requirements and statements of work are captured accurately.

• Help perform schedule risk assessments, identifying potential cost or timing risks that need escalation.

• Assist in maintaining accurate expenditure records and in preparing simple expenditure projections to support funding availability.

• Support the submission of timely funding requests to the government when additional resources are needed.

• Help integrate contractual changes into the cost‑control system, adjusting cost and schedule baselines as directed.

• Assist in liaison work with internal teams, external partners, and government agencies to coordinate contract execution and resolve cost‑control issues.

• Support the verification of financial data accuracy to ensure compliance with contractual and regulatory standards.

• Help prepare, develop, and coordinate the integrated master plan and master schedule to meet program objectives.

• Assist in ensuring that major projects and program schedules are aligned across finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality functions.

• Support tracking of plans and schedules, performing basic risk analysis, and identifying critical path and network logic conflicts.

• Help use Gantt charts, PERT, milestone charts, earned‑value management, and other project‑management tools to gauge progress and identify performance variances for focused intervention.

Basic Qualifications

A candidate, regardless of age and hiring source, must meet ALL the below criteria. The candidate must:

• Be enrolled full-time and pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited college/university AND graduating after August 2026.

• Be majoring in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related degree.

• Be available to work full-time (40 hours per week) for at least 10 weeks during summer 2026.

• Be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite) as well as Program Special access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite).

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.25/4.0 or higher.

• Be availabl