Northrop wins Army command, control contract

• By Roseanne Gerin
• Aug 12, 2004

Northrop Grumman Corp. has won a five-year $71.2 million task order from the Army to provide acquisition and software support for command, control, communications and computers, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance program readiness.

The contract is part of a $1.4 billion software and systems engineering, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract from the Army's Communications-Electronics Command in October 2001.

Northrop Grumman's Information Technology unit of Herndon, Va., will provide program management, engineering, security, logistics and technical support.

The order also includes engineering and technology integration for current and new programs, such as interoperability analysis and testing, system design and configuration and modeling and simulation.

Northrop Grumman's teammates include Data Corporation of America Inc. of Colts Neck, N.J.; PKMM Inc. of Oceanport, N.J.; and NetCentric Computer Solutions Inc. of Freehold, N.J.