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Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms Chosen For Army System

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI LLC), a company formed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Cobham (COB), has been selected over teams led by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Rockwell Collins [COL] under a 10-year, potential $2.4 billion contract, to provide the Vehicular Intercommunication System Expanded (VIS-X) for the Army's Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM). In the competition, Lockheed Martin teamed with Sanmina-SCI; Griffon Corp.'s [GFF] Telephonics teamed with Rockwell Collins. Under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, the NGCI team…

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