LONDON, July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by the
Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to provide its CommandPoint™
application as the core solution for the MPS' new command and
control requirements.
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The framework agreed between the MPS and Northrop Grumman will
enable the MPS to use the CommandPoint™ application at the core of
its new command and control system, which is planned to go live in
October 2015. Currently, the MPS
handles between 12,000 and 15,000 emergency and nonemergency calls
per day. There are more than 2,000 operators employed to answer
calls and dispatch officers to incidents.
"This is an important award for us that acknowledges our leading
capability in public safety command and control application
systems," said Jim Myers, vice
president and general manager, Cyber Solutions division, Northrop
Grumman Information Systems. "We are very pleased to be working
with the Metropolitan Police Service, and we look forward to
building a strong partnership with them and delivering this world
class capability."
The CommandPoint™ system is the latest evolution of a command
and control application for public safety dispatch of the emergency
services, including real-time resource management, geographic
information systems and secure mobile information capabilities.
Northrop Grumman has been providing command and control for public
safety for more than 40 years and through four generations of
systems, serving hundreds of customers including several of the
largest U.S. cities (Chicago,
Houston, Philadelphia and Boston), and international customers
(Montreal, National Police Service
of Ireland and the London
Ambulance Service). The London Ambulance Service successfully
implemented CommandPoint™ last year as its new computer-aided
dispatch system and brought it into operation before the 2012
London Olympics and Paralympics.
"We are pleased to be involved in this programme which we
recognise as being crucially important to the Metropolitan Police
Service," said Andrew Tyler, chief
executive, U.K. and Europe,
Northrop Grumman. "This contract award enhances the range of
capabilities that we bring to our customers as we broaden our
portfolio in international markets. We look forward to building on
this success and to expanding our presence in this U.K.
market."
Northrop Grumman is also the prime contractor and systems
integrator for the design, development, installation, integration,
operation and maintenance of IDENT1, the biometric identification
and fingerprint database service for the police across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The MPS is the largest policing agency in the U.K., accounting
for nearly one-third of all police in Britain. This contract is part of the MPS'
Command and Control Futures Programme, which will manage all
incoming, emergency, nonemergency and internal calls, and is a
cornerstone programme, contributing to a larger change programme
across the MPS with the objectives of increasing efficiencies,
reducing costs and improving services.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
SOURCE Northrop Grumman Corporation