The Military Bowl is a post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association-sanctioned Division I college football bowl game that is played annually each December since 2008, and is currently played at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
 The 2014 through 2019 games are featuring teams from the American Athletic Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
 Sponsored by Northrop Grumman, the game is officially known as the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman.
The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a demonstration unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) designed for aircraft carrier-based operations.
 Developed by the American defense technology company Northrop Grumman, the X-47 project began as part of DARPA's J-UCAS program, and subsequently became part of the United States Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) program.
 The X-47B is a tailless jet-powered blended-wing-body aircraft capable of semi-autonomous operation and aerial refuelling.
The 2011 Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman, the fourth edition of the game, was a post-season American college football bowl game, held on December 28, 2011 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. as part of the 2011–12 NCAA bowl season.
The 2014 Military Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 27, 2014 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on the campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
 The seventh annual Military Bowl, it pitted the Virginia Tech Hokies of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the American Athletic Conference co-champion Cincinnati Bearcats.
 It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games will conclude the 2014 FBS football season.
 The game started at 1:00 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.
 It was sponsored by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman and is officially known as the Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman.
The 2012 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 27, 2012, at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C..
 The fifth edition of the Military Bowl began at 3:00 p.m. EST and was shown on ESPN.
 It was between the San Jose State Spartans from the Western Athletic Conference and the Bowling Green Falcons from the Mid-American Conference and was the final game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams.
 The Spartans accepted their invitation after earning a 10–2 record in the regular season, while the Falcons accepted after earning an 8–4 record on theirs.
The 2010 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman was the third edition of the college football bowl game previously called the EagleBank Bowl.
 It was played as scheduled at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on December 29, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. (ET), and telecast on ESPN.
 The event remains sponsored by EagleBank and is organized by the DC Bowl Committee, Inc. and the Washington Convention and Sports Authority.
The 2015 Military Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 28, 2015 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
 The eighth edition of the Military Bowl featured the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Conference against the hometown Navy Midshipmen of the American Athletic Conference.
 It began at 2:30 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.
 It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, it was officially known as the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman Corporation () is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's 1994 purchase of Grumman.
 The company was named as the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world in 2015.
 Northrop Grumman employs over 68,000 people worldwide.
 It reported revenues of $23.526 billion in 2015.
 Northrop Grumman ranks No. 124 on the 2015 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations and ranks in the top ten military-friendly employers.
 It is headquartered in West Falls Church, Virginia.
The 2013 Military Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 27, 2013 at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
 It was one of the 2013–14 bowl games that concluded the 2013 FBS football season.
 The sixth edition of the Military Bowl, it featured the Marshall Thundering Herd of Conference USA against the Maryland Terrapins (based in nearby College Park) from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
 The game began at 2:30 p.m. EST and aired on ESPN.
 It was sponsored by aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, and was officially known as the Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman.
 Marshall defeated Maryland by a score of 31–20.
The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft.
 Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and partners, its independent existence ended in 1994 when it was acquired by Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.

Question: The 2012 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's purchase of Grumman, in which year?
Answer: 1994