U.S. Army Awards Northrop Grumman $267 Million Defense Knowledge Online NETCENTS Task Order
13 Mars 2007 - 4:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
MCLEAN, Va., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman
Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a task order with a $267
million ceiling by the U.S. Army to develop Defense Knowledge
Online (DKO), the largest portal task order ever awarded in the
federal government. The task order was awarded under the U.S. Air
Force Network-Centric Solutions contract vehicle. DKO is the single
enterprise service portal, serving as the entry point for all U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD) and authorized users to access DoD and
government intranets supporting operations, missions and critical
support processes for forces worldwide. DKO will provide relevant
information and applications to the warfighter and other government
users through a secure service-oriented framework to help them
perform their missions more effectively. Under the terms of the
task order, Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector
will provide full systems integration, application development, and
operations and maintenance and technology evolution, growing the
DKO enterprise solution from 1.8 million users to possibly eight
million users or more, potentially across all federal government
agencies. "Our Northrop Grumman team brings a wealth of experience
with DKO's foundation and every major integration element so that
we can minimize transition and integration risks while rapidly
deploying DKO capabilities," said Catherine Kuenzel, vice president
of Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Solutions for Northrop
Grumman IT's Defense group. "In addition, we will help reduce total
cost of ownership by adopting best practices." The length of the
DKO task order is one year with four six-month options. Initial
work will be performed at Fort Belvoir, Va., an undisclosed site in
Maryland, and in southwest Asia. Northrop Grumman's teammates on
the contract include Cherry Road Technologies, Parsippany, N.J.;
Appian, Vienna, Va.; AT&T, San Antonio, Texas; CISCO Systems,
Inc., San Jose, Calif.; Dell, Round Rock, Texas; EMC2, Hopkinton,
Mass.; SUN Microsystems, Santa Clara, Calif.; CSC, El Segundo,
Calif.; SAIC, San Diego; EDS, Plano, Texas; ePlus, Inc. and
McDonald Bradley, Inc., Herndon, Va.; SOLERS, Inc., Arlington, Va.;
Ennovex Solutions, Inc., Chantilly, Va.; and SRA International,
Fairfax, Va. Northrop Grumman will provide domain expertise and
tactical warfighting portal applications. "This new award is
significant to Northrop Grumman due to the growing importance of
sharing critical information regarding our nation's defense and
security seamlessly and instantaneously across all federal
government agencies," said David Zolet, president of Northrop
Grumman IT's Defense group. "The DKO task order affirms Northrop
Grumman's position as the leading provider of enterprise portal
solutions across Department of Defense, intelligence, and civilian
agency domains." Northrop Grumman is a $30 billion global defense
and technology company whose 122,000 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: Juli Ballesteros, APR, Northrop Grumman
Corporation, +1-703-556-2736, Web site:
http://www.northropgrumman.com/
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