Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop Joint Interface Control Officer Support System
01 Juin 2005 - 7:35PM
PR Newswire (US)
Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop Joint Interface
Control Officer Support System SAN DIEGO, June 1
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)
has been selected by the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center
to develop and integrate the U.S. military's next generation of
joint and coalition network-management systems. The Joint Interface
Control Officer (JICO) Support System will manage complex tactical
networks through an automated toolset and information repository
that enables planning, management and analysis of communications
before, during and after operations. Northrop Grumman's Mission
Systems sector won the $39.4 million contract as one of three
competing teams. Each team developed a proposed JICO Support System
solution under a phase-one study contract and demonstrated its
solutions during a week-long joint demonstration for U.S. Air
Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps representatives. The contract,
including production options, could be worth as much as $124
million through July 2008. Joint interface control officers use the
JICO Support System to plan, establish and operate tactical
communications in local or wide-area theaters of operations. The
ruggedized, transportable system has all the digitized data and
voice communications capabilities needed to support JICO functions
and can be deployed rapidly in severe environments. The Air Force
is the lead acquisition service for this multi-service investment
program. "Northrop Grumman's solution leverages our proven
network-management technology," said Mike Twyman, vice president of
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems' Communication & Information
Systems unit. "The JICO Support System will provide net-centric
services through a transformational management system to enable
Internet protocol-based networks of the future to operate
efficiently with current tactical networks." "The win strengthens
Northrop Grumman's position as a leader in systems for tactical
network management," said Barry Rhine, vice president and general
manager of the sector's Defense Mission Systems unit. "It places
the company in a strong position to provide similar network
management tools to the Department of Homeland Security and
coalition partners in NATO and the Pacific Rim." The Northrop
Grumman team includes Ultra Electronics Holdings, Austin, Texas;
Booz Allen Hamilton, Tampa, Fla.; EDO Communications and
Countermeasures Systems, Simi Valley, Calif.; ProLogic,
Incorporated, Manassas, Va.; SDS International, Arlington, Va.;
Lockheed Martin STASYS Consulting, Reston, Va.; Thales Air
Operations, Somerset, United Kingdom; ViaSat, Inc., Carlsbad,
Calif. Development and production will be done at Northrop Grumman
Mission Systems' new state-of-the-art facility in San Diego.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, based in Reston, Va., is a global
integrator of complex, mission-enabling systems and services for
defense, intelligence and civil government markets. The sector's
technology leadership and expertise spans areas such as strategic
systems, including ICBMs; missile defense; intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance; command and control; technical
services; and training. DATASOURCE: Northrop Grumman Corporation
CONTACT: Janis Lamar of Northrop Grumman Corporation,
+1-703-345-7046, Web site: http://www.northropgrumman.com/
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