- Visibility6
- Citations1
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness29
AI assistants rarely name Northrop Grumman, appearing in 2 of 60 answers, with Lockheed Martin also named in those answers. Its overall score is 28 out of 100, placing it 1,422nd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the industrial market: none named Northrop Grumman. AI assistants named it in 2 of 60 answers (3.3%). The typical industrial company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Northrop Grumman ranks 138 of 246 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
246 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
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The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.northropgrumman.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets rules for 12 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*blocked
- ClaudeBot*blocked
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*blocked
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBot*blocked
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibot*blocked
- OAI-SearchBot*allowed
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*allowed
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbot*blocked
- YouBot*allowed
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
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- What factors affect the pricing of satellite communication systems for defense organizations?
- Uncrewed aerial systems vs. piloted aircraft for surveillance operations
- Estimated cost ranges for deploying layered missile defense networks
- How to address interoperability challenges in multi-domain command and control solutions
- Is it cost-effective to upgrade legacy radar systems to next-generation technologies?
- Alternatives to traditional kinetic weapons for neutralizing aerial threats
- Use cases for counter-unmanned aerial system solutions in airport security
- Are advanced autonomous defense platforms worth the investment for military applications?
- Which advanced cybersecurity solutions are most effective in protecting critical defense infrastructure?
- Top-rated missile defense solutions for government agencies
- Common issues when integrating new defense systems with existing military infrastructure
- How are next-generation sensors used to improve space situational awareness?
- How do integrated battle management systems compare to traditional command and control networks?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.