Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Fairfax County, VA

OperatorNorthrop Grumman
Permits2
Generators permitted
Latest permitMay 23, 2011

What the disclosures say.

Each layer below carries its own confidence tier and its own citation. There is deliberately no blended risk score: a single number would hide which parts are read from a filing and which are inferred.

Air permitconfirmed
2 issued permits

Latest issued May 23, 2011. Article 6 — minor new source review; Article 5 — SOP. Issued by Northern.

VA DEQ — Issued Air Permits for Data Centers, published as of August 17, 2026
Flood zoneconfirmed
Zone X — area of minimal flood hazard

Outside a Special Flood Hazard Area. Point-in-polygon lookup against the effective FEMA map.

Water stressconfirmed
High (40-80%)

Baseline water stress — the share of available surface water withdrawn each year in this basin. Overall water risk: Low - Medium (1-2).

WRI Aqueduct 4.0 baseline annual water risk
Grid interconnectionpending
Not yet matched

PJM Data Miner 2 API key not configured (set PJM_API_KEY). PJM retired the public bulk queue download, so no interconnection match is asserted for this site.

No citation — PJM retired its public bulk queue download; this layer awaits a Data Miner feed.
Locationprobable
2980 Fairview Park Drive, Fairfax County, VA

Recovered from the text of permit 73872-1, adjacent to the facility/equipment description. Not a structured field in the DEQ listing.

Permit 73872-1 · permit PDF
Operatorconfirmed
Northrop Grumman

Permit is held in the name of Northrop Grumman.

Permittee of record: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
Permitted equipmentpending
Not stated in readable permit text

No generator count could be read from the permit text.

Read from the text of 2 permit documents listed below

Geocoded to 38.86711, -77.21504 via osm-nominatim, county cross-checked against the permit.

Where this site sits in the build.

Proposed
Filed
Approved
Under construction
Operational

Air permit issued 2011-05-23. Construction and operational status are not established by permit data alone. confirmed

What the operator says

No public operator statements have been recorded for this site. Company claims about capacity, cooling technology and water use are kept in this block, separate from the verified record above, and are never merged into it.

Every dated event on the record.

  • March 2, 2011

    Air permit 73798-1 issued

    Article 5 — SOP · source confirmed

  • May 23, 2011

    Air permit 73872-1 issued

    Article 6 — minor new source review · source confirmed

Every permit behind this record.

RegistrationIssuedProgramDocument
73872-1May 23, 2011Article 6 — minor new source reviewPermit PDF
73798-1March 2, 2011Article 5 — SOPPermit PDF

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