CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 2,000 pounds of food was collected at Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC ) Charlottesville campus for the Blue Ridge Area and Thomas Jefferson Area food banks. The company's 450 Charlottesville employees collected 2,637 individual food items in only two weeks. The donation resulted from Northrop Grumman's first Engineering Week (E-Week) Department Food Drive Challenge, held recently in Charlottesville as a new community service activity. Northrop Grumman employees competed in departmental teams to collect the food. The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank provided more than 18 million meals to hungry families during 2013, and this donation was one of the larger single-event donations they have received. "Two-thousand pounds is a substantial amount of food.