Company Profile: TRW, Inc.

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


Founded in 1901, TRW manufactured parts for US fighter planes during both world wars. After merging with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in 1958, TRW began manufacturing unmanned spacecraft for scientific and defense purposes, and has expanded into the automotive, electronics, energy markets. Recently, TRW has been the target of a hostile takeover attempt by defense contractor Northrop Grumman.

COMPANY NAME:
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS: 1900 Richmond Road, Cleveland, OH, 44124
COMPANY WEB SITE: www.trw.com
2001 GROSS REVENUES: $16.38B
NUMBER OF EXMPLOYEES: 93,700
TYPES OF BUSINESS: Design, manufacture and sales of engineering, research and technical services.
TYPES OF FEDERAL CONTRACTS: Automotive, aerospace, ballistic missile, missile defense, and information systems. Recently won a $169.7M contract from the US Air Force Air Logistics Center for an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile safety-enhanced re-entry system design and demonstration.

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY!

Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently. We stand for justice and democracy. We reject false equivalence. We go after stories others don’t. We’re a nonprofit newsroom, because the kind of truth-telling investigations we do doesn’t happen under corporate ownership.

And the essential ingredient that makes all this possible? Readers like you.

It’s reader support that enables Mother Jones to devote the time and resources to report the facts that are too difficult, expensive, or inconvenient for other news outlets to uncover. Please help with a donation today if you can—even a few bucks will make a real difference. A monthly gift would be incredible.

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate