Northrop Grumman Awarded $874.6 Million U.S. Postal Service Contract to Provide Next Generation Automated Mail Handling Equipmen
01 Mars 2007 - 6:20AM
PR Newswire (US)
BALTIMORE, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman
Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $874.6 million
fixed-price contract from the United States Postal Service (USPS)
to provide 100 Flats Sequencing Systems (FSS) designed to further
automate the flats mail stream, which includes large envelopes,
catalogs and magazines. "The FSS award is the latest in a series of
programs reflecting our strong relationship with the Postal Service
to integrate Northrop Grumman flat mail technologies into
innovative postal automation solutions. We have focused on
developing a comprehensive system that will enable the agency to
realize operational efficiencies, and we are extremely proud and
excited at the opportunity to make FSS a reality," said Vicki
Spira, vice president of Postal Automation at Northrop Grumman's
Government Systems Division. Northrop Grumman's first generation of
flats sorting technologies is in operation at Postal Service
processing centers nationwide. FSS represents the next generation
of flats automation by sorting mail to the delivery sequence of
each carrier, thereby reducing manual sorting. Flat mail is a
labor-intensive category of mail to process and deliver due to
variations in size and thickness. Northrop Grumman is serving as
the FSS prime contractor. The company jointly developed the key
technologies incorporated into FSS with Solystic, a company
subsidiary in France, and Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. in
Arlington, Texas. This team will field a pre-production version of
the system later this year, which will be used by USPS to develop
system operational procedures. Installation of the first FSS
production units at USPS facilities nationwide is expected to begin
in 2008 with the remaining FSS installations scheduled for
completion by 2010. Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion
global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees
provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information
and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government
and commercial customers worldwide. DATASOURCE: Northrop Grumman
Corporation CONTACT: Media, Paul Cabellon, +1-410-765-7192, , or
Investors, Gaston Kent, +1-310-210-3423, both of Northrop Grumman
Corporation Web site: http://www.northropgrumman.com/
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