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Northrop Grumman Looking To Deliver Cyber Command’s First Joint Warfighting Platform

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, September 4th, 2018

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Northrop Grumman Looking To Deliver Cyber Command’s First Joint Warfighting Platform

Credit: Courtesy of Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is offering a new “weapons system”-like platform for Cyber Command capable of integrating offensive, defensive and command and control mission applications across all cyber forces ahead of an expected downselect decision before the end of the year, a company official said Tuesday.Chris Valentino, Northrop Grumman’s director of joint cyberspace programs, said the company submitted a proposal for the Unified Platform program in July, which looks to bring together model-based engineering and agile software development to deliver the…

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